sleep on ibook G4...

2004-11-05 Thread Colin Leroy
Hello all, hello Ben, I've been able to see that sleep now works on iBook G4 - resume works too with a garbled screen. I had Ben's albook_sleep patch applied, plus my patch to fix the blanking corruption, plus I had added PMAC_MB_CAN_SLEEP to my PowerBook6,3 structure - and then stopped there...

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:03:03AM +0100, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Debian is only 32bit on all PPC machines, correct? Correct. But this will very likely change in the future. Great. A bi-arch approach or a pure 64bit? Debian will not even run on the G5 MAC? That's not true. I

Re: sleep on ibook G4...

2004-11-05 Thread Domingo Fiesta Segura
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:37:12 +0100 Colin Leroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had Ben's albook_sleep patch applied, plus my patch to fix the blanking corruption, plus I had added PMAC_MB_CAN_SLEEP to my PowerBook6,3 structure What graphics card does the PowerBook6,3 iBook G4 have? I've got a

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:58:22AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, my current 64bit machine is reaching EOL and I am looking for a replacement. One option I seriously consider is using the current 64bit machines from Apple. One question, what are you going to do with the old EOLfed

Re: sleep on ibook G4...

2004-11-05 Thread Colin Leroy
On 05 Nov 2004 at 12h11, Domingo Fiesta Segura wrote: Hi, What graphics card does the PowerBook6,3 iBook G4 have? I've got a PowerBook6,5 iBook G4 but I don't remember the exact model (I'll check this evening when I get back home), just to make sure it can work in mine too :-) Radeon 9200

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Sven, On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:28:21PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:58:22AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, my current 64bit machine is reaching EOL and I am looking for a replacement. One option I seriously consider is using the current 64bit

Search for patched yaboot testers ...

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have added support for amiga partition tables to yaboot, which is necessary for getting yaboot to work on my pegasos 2. Now Ethan Benson refuses to get the patch integrated unless i get widespread testing on a variety of hardware, despite the fact that the code in the patch never gets

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:42:53PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Sven, On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:28:21PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:58:22AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, my current 64bit machine is reaching EOL and I am looking for a

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Sven, On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:56:04PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Great. Unfortunately the Apple-machines look a little space constraint, and I know how quickly add-on cards and additional drives pile up, so I am still deciding. (And I figured the IBM Power-machines are quite a bit

Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu' device error in Gnome

2004-11-05 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 List, ~Do any of you with more history with Gnome have some info on the proper way to handle the /dev/pmu error when Gnome starts up? I have seen posts on Debian lists and elsewhere with folks changing the permissions on /dev/pmu manually, and

Re: Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu' device error in Gnome

2004-11-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
~Do any of you with more history with Gnome have some info on the proper way to handle the /dev/pmu error when Gnome starts up? I have The proper way to handle this is to change the corresponding Gnome applet to cope with readonly access to /dev/pmu. Plain and simple. Michael

Re: Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu' device error in Gnome

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:21:36AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 List, ~Do any of you with more history with Gnome have some info on the proper way to handle the /dev/pmu error when Gnome starts up? I have seen posts on Debian lists and

Re: sleep on ibook G4...

2004-11-05 Thread Colin Leroy
On 05 Nov 2004 at 17h11, Domingo Fiesta Segura wrote: Hi, Finally, where can I get those highly experimental patches to race my creature? ;-) In the archives :) -- Colin

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 5, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Well, go and look, the size of this beast make you maybe misinterpret the size of it. There is only 2 drive bays though, but three pci-x or pci slots, which will probably be enough for whatever you want to do. I suppose that the expansion

Re: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:40:28PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Nov 5, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Well, go and look, the size of this beast make you maybe misinterpret the size of it. There is only 2 drive bays though, but three pci-x or pci slots, which will probably be

Linux in MoL in Linux, who did it!

2004-11-05 Thread Julien PERVILLE
do you have any experience successfuly (as in far enough to boot the kernel) running Linux inside Mol inside linux? i'd like to have a VM to do testing in, without risking to trash my own system (looking after a strange bug in old glibc on debian 3 especially, upgrading to testing is no

Re: Linux in MoL in Linux, who did it!

2004-11-05 Thread Domingo Fiesta Segura
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:32:32 +0100 Julien PERVILLE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you have any experience successfuly (as in far enough to boot the kernel) running Linux inside Mol inside linux? i'd like to have a VM to do testing in, without risking to trash my own system (looking after a

PowerBook 12'' some troubles

2004-11-05 Thread Andrea Giusto
Hello everybody, I am new to debian but I have been using exclusively linux on an Intel for one year (of which I am kinda proud :) )!Now I bought a PowerBook 12'' and Debian works great on that but I have three problems up to now that I cannot solve: 1) I cannot control LCD brightness (I

Re: Search for patched yaboot testers ...

2004-11-05 Thread Niklaus Giger
Hi I have the following four systems where I could test the patches. PowerBook Alu 1 GHz 15 PowerBook Pismo G3 400 Mhz PowerMac G3 blue/white Pegasos I (Here I never managed to install a stock Debian kernel, I have a custom compiled kernel based on the Gentoo 2.6.8-pegasos-r2, then used a

Re: Search for patched yaboot testers ...

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +0100, Niklaus Giger wrote: Hi I have the following four systems where I could test the patches. Ok, that would be great, PowerBook Alu 1 GHz 15 PowerBook Pismo G3 400 Mhz PowerMac G3 blue/white Not sure if the prismo is already a newworld, i guess it

Re: Search for patched yaboot testers ...

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +0100, Niklaus Giger wrote: Hi I have the following four systems where I could test the patches. Ok, that would be great, PowerBook Alu 1 GHz 15 PowerBook Pismo G3 400 Mhz PowerMac

Can one add S3 Virge vga card to beige G3??

2004-11-05 Thread Marc
Well, I already did it, at bootup, it recognises the card, but can't start X. Might there be a problem?? Does the card need to be flashed to work on ppc?? It's a pity I can't copy from Infocenter, but it reads: Virge/DX or /GX (rev 01) (it is virge G3) flags bus master medium devsel latency 32

Re: Linux in MoL in Linux, who did it!

2004-11-05 Thread Julien PERVILLE
Le ven 05/11/2004 à 20:00, Sven Luther a écrit : On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:32:32PM +0100, Julien PERVILLE wrote: do you have any experience successfuly (as in far enough to boot the kernel) running Linux inside Mol inside linux? There are no linux 2.6 drivers, and last i checked even 2.4

Re: Linux in MoL in Linux, who did it!

2004-11-05 Thread Julien PERVILLE
Le ven 05/11/2004 à 19:32, Julien PERVILLE a écrit : do you have any experience successfuly (as in far enough to boot the kernel) running Linux inside Mol inside linux? i've been looking for info all day, but i can't find any good info, as if everyone knew it was possible to do that in

Re: RAID on PPC was: 64bit PPC and Debian

2004-11-05 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:54:24PM +0100, Gunnar von Boehn wrote: } Well, i am having some trouble getting a DPT (now adaptec) smartraid V } scsi controller seeing my disks on pegasos, but i guess a OF-supported } pmac scsi card would have both less trouble, and be way more expensive. } } Me

Re: PowerBook 12'' some troubles

2004-11-05 Thread Niklaus Giger
Hi I have a Powerbook G4 alu (1 GHz, 15). Am Freitag, 5. November 2004 19.49 schrieb Andrea Giusto: Hello everybody, I am new to debian but I have been using exclusively linux on an Intel for one year (of which I am kinda proud :) )!Now I bought a PowerBook 12'' and Debian works great on that

Problems booting pegasos I

2004-11-05 Thread Niklaus Giger
Hi I downloaded the special pegasos 1 netinst iso at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/pegasos/sarge-pegasos1-netinst-2004.10.25.iso In the OF-prompt I typed boot /pci/ide/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 PEGASOS1.;1 as my CD-Rom-drive is the primary master. Then I get after about 20 seconds lines

Re: PowerBook 12'' some troubles

2004-11-05 Thread lunaticmarkino
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:49:36 -0800, Andrea Giusto wrote: Hello everybody, I am new to debian but I have been using exclusively linux on an Intel for one year (of which I am kinda proud :) )!Now I bought a PowerBook 12'' and Debian works great on that but I have three problems up to now that I

Re: PowerBook 12'' some troubles

2004-11-05 Thread Andrea Giusto
Thank you very much I will give a look to that thread ps. questo è per il feedback del forum :) mail private già spedita ... Alle Friday 05 November 2004 2:33 pm, lunaticmarkino ha scritto: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:49:36 -0800, Andrea Giusto wrote: Hello everybody, I am new to debian but I

Re: [ALSA] Problem on G3-266

2004-11-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:20 +0100, Matthieu Oppliger wrote: Hello ! I try to use ALSA on my G3-266. After recompilation of my kernel (2.6.8),with ALSA drivers as modules, i did apt-get install alsa. Then alsaconf - finds powermac - PowerMac sound card. It seems that alsaconf did'nt put

config new powerbook

2004-11-05 Thread Isidoro Reyes de Zuloaga
Hi! Does anyone have the appropiate .config for the new powerbook 15''? it's a 1.5 Ghz, ati raedon 9700 .. I'm a linux begginer and i don't know how to compile my the new kernel. thanks a lot isidoro

Something strange with my swap partition

2004-11-05 Thread Isidoro Reyes de Zuloaga
Hi again. Now i'm trying to fix a problem with my swap partion. First when i installed my debian (sid) i made a swap partition, but i think it's not working because if i run free it says: yoda:/home/isidoro# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: