Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, October 28, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Brad Boyer wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:50:31AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: I may be mistaken, but I believe that snip... Well, it's not really that simple. I'll try to explain as I go along in the message. snip... Thanks Brad! the extra

Re: True state of support for 12 iBook G4

2004-10-29 Thread Emanuele Olivetti
Graham Wilson wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:58:46PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: John Goerzen wrote: ... i can't see this card ever being supported... get a USB one. i'd also be keen to hear recommendations. Is it possible to use another mini-PCI card that is supported by Linux instead of

Re: True state of support for 12 iBook G4

2004-10-29 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting Emanuele Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Graham Wilson wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:58:46PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: John Goerzen wrote: ... i can't see this card ever being supported... get a USB one. i'd also be keen to hear recommendations. Is it possible to use another

Re: True state of support for 12 iBook G4

2004-10-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
1. Sleep mode. According to [1], sleep doesn't work at all. However, others are not reporting any trouble with it (basically saying everything except the Airport Extreme works fine). Does sleep work on this unit? 2. Video. Not only are there conflicting stories (ranging from

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Re: pbbuttonsd and laptop-mode start sequence

2004-10-29 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:29:52AM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote: I'm running Debian kernel 2.6.8-powerpc, on a 1998 PowerBook G3 Series Wallstreet / PDQ. I've been trying to figure out why the hard drive would spin constantly, regardless of what I do with the laptop-mode.conf settings. Based

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Re: True state of support for 12 iBook G4

2004-10-29 Thread Arne Caspari
Jérôme Marant wrote: Quoting Emanuele Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not an expert but D-Link dwl-122 works pretty well. Cheap, small, 11Mbit so 802.11b. It seems it's not possible to use another mini-PCI wireless card because apple mini-PCI slot is not standard :( . On new ibooks (from

Re: Configuring printing on Debian (Performa6230CD)

2004-10-29 Thread Martin Habets
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:20:53PM -0200, Gunther Furtado wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me to set up a StyleWriter II and/or an ImageWriter II on a Debian on a Performa6230CD. I was able to run http://localhost:631 but I don't know exactly how to put down on some fields like location. I've

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Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:56:36AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Guido Guenther writes: fullscreen mol, although that currently has some problems ;) Namely? It fails to setup the video mode correctly on

Re: Configuring printing on Debian (Performa6230CD)

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:34:10PM +0100, Martin Habets wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:20:53PM -0200, Gunther Furtado wrote: Can anyone help me to set up a StyleWriter II and/or an ImageWriter II on a Debian on a Performa6230CD. I was able to run http://localhost:631 but I don't know

Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:29:47AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line question... Does the Apple licensing requirement for the drivers and patches mean that (as a practical matter) we'll never be able to write a free miboot that can boot off partitioned media? Well, I wouldn't say

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-29 Thread Jaonary Rabarisoa
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:52:34PM -0400, Sébastien Mengin wrote: Le lun 25 oct 04 à 23:30, Sven Luther a écrit: the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some french mac user

free miboot - was Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-29 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 12:33, Brad Boyer wrote: Would we be able to use the patch drivers if someone convinced Apple to give us permission to redistribute them? This is old, obsolete stuff, after all. If we could even put them in a special, non-free package, it could be usable. I'll see what

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le vendredi 10/29/04 Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : The problem is fixed by this patch against 2.6.9: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/rivafb-fix-mode-switch-and-nv30.diff It also fixes rivafb for the newer 12 pbooks (NV30). Many thanks to Wolfi and Joerg

Re: i

2004-10-29 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 28 Oct, this message from Jon Cortelyou echoed through cyberspace: I got totem-xine installed onto my G3 600 Mhz Dual-USB iBook running PowerPC Ubuntu Linux (Debian based distro). My video card is an ATI Rage Mobility 128 8MB 2x AGP. [snip] Once installed, the DVD video/audio

Re: Sleep support with Cisco Aironet (was: Test patch for sleep..)

2004-10-29 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 29 Oct, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:44 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote: However, when I use a Cisco CardBus network card, the screen stays black during wake up, but IMO this is a problem with Cisco driver (airo*). I say this

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Joerg Maier
Can I safely add : #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_GEFORCE_FX_GO_5200 0x0329 to pci_ids.h and try recompiling? yes, this will do it, in my case the fbdevice is running fine now, thank you guido for your time and fb skills. # cat /proc/fb 0 NV32 ---

Re: i

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Cortelyou
Hi Michel, That's what I was afraid the answer would be. I should I have done my homework before purchasing it. I kinda bought the used iBook to play DVDs when traveling and portable wi-fi. Oh well I'll see if can dig up a copy of OS X Panther. =( Thanks, Jon - Original Message -

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:56:32PM +0200, Djoumé SALVETTI wrote: Le vendredi 10/29/04 Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : The problem is fixed by this patch against 2.6.9: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/rivafb-fix-mode-switch-and-nv30.diff It also fixes

Re: free miboot - was Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:45:10PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Booting from floppy every time is a pain -- especially since floppies tend to go bad (wear out, actually) over time. But it's a possible option in the rare case when you haven't got access to any MacOS{89} install CD. But that's

exp plus storage device

2004-10-29 Thread Bassett, Mark
Anyone know of any issues using one of the exp plus storage devices through a raid controller not attached to an RS/6000 ? I have had 0 luck getting a kernel to tftp boot on my rs6000 box and I want to at least use the exp plus storage. I have connected it to a raid controller on another pc and

Re: NXClient for PPC ?

2004-10-29 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:20:15 +0200, Uwe Hentzschel escreveu: are there any versions of nxclient for PPC ( nomachine.com ) available ? No. I contacted them, they suggested we entered their mailing lists to get involved to learn and earn permissions to compile it ourselves.

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le vendredi 10/29/04 Joerg Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : yes, this will do it, in my case the fbdevice is running fine now, Works fine here also. thank you guido for your time and fb skills. Many thanks Guido! Hope this will be included in the mainstream kernel. -- Djoumé SALVETTI

APM and backlight keyboard with kernel 2.6.8-1

2004-10-29 Thread Jaonary Rabarisoa
Hi all, I've juste finish to install Debian on my albook 15. I've used debian-installer and the bluit-in kernel 2.6.8-1. Now, I want to run a battery manager such as wmbattery but it says that the kernel doesn't not support APM. Then, I wanna know whether I shoud rebuild the kernel or is

Troubles preventing me from doing anything with my PPC.

2004-10-29 Thread Julien Gage
I have a PowerCenter Pro 210 with Open Firmware 1.0.5. I got System Disk to set it up for NetBSD 1.6.2 and installed that over my entire hard disk, overwriting Mac OS 7.6.1. The problem was that I could not boot to hard disk. I found on this site (http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/1.html)

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-29 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:15:37 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt said: A common practice also on Macs is to reverse the meaning of Alt Command (Meta) so that the key labelled Alt actually becomes Meta (and does the combo thing for ~ or | still) and Command (Meta) becomes Alt. A common trap that

Re: APM and backlight keyboard with kernel 2.6.8-1

2004-10-29 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jaonary Rabarisoa writes: Now, I want to run a battery manager such as wmbattery but it says that the kernel doesn't not support APM. Then, I wanna know whether I shoud rebuild the kernel or is there another way to put apm on ? Load the module apm_emu. If you put in /etc/modules, it

Re: APM and backlight keyboard with kernel 2.6.8-1

2004-10-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 the mental interface of Jens Schmalzing told: Hi, Jaonary Rabarisoa writes: Now, I want to run a battery manager such as wmbattery but it says that the kernel doesn't not support APM. Then, I wanna know whether I shoud rebuild the kernel or is there another way

Re: Sleep support with Cisco Aironet (was: Test patch for sleep..)

2004-10-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:07 +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: Yes, it's probably a bug with the airo driver. It needs proper suspend/resume callbacks, or if it has them, then they need to be debugged :) Anything I can help with? Maybe you can point me in the right direction. I have an Aironet

Sleep on iBook G4: Need help

2004-10-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Is there anybody leaving in Canberra (AU) who could give me physical access to one of these for a couple of days ? That would help getting the sleep stuff in shape. Ben.