gnome-session (Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display)

2004-11-30 Thread froinds
Hello I'm trying to open a remote session in this manner and getting the error below ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] then after successfully logging in gnome-session which leads me to this message Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display What is it, and what can I do about it? Thanks

Re: gnome-session (Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display)

2004-11-30 Thread David Pye
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 06:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm trying to open a remote session in this manner and getting the error below ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] then after successfully logging in gnome-session which leads me to this message Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

installing debian on IBM 43P-150 (CHRP)

2004-11-30 Thread Philippe Guyot
Hi all ! Sorry for my bad english. I sucessfully installed a woody on a 43P-140 which is a true prep machine with a bootable diskette from Leigh Brown. All's fine. Thanks to him. I am trying now on a 43P-150. It's a CHRP machine Leigh tolds me.(Leigh's diskette wont boot: immediate return

installing debian on IBM 43P-150 (CHRP)

2004-11-30 Thread Philippe Guyot
Hi all ! Sorry for my bad english. I sucessfully installed a woody on a 43P-140 which is a true prep machine with a bootable diskette from Leigh Brown. All's fine. Thanks to him. I am trying now on a 43P-150. It's a CHRP machine Leigh tolds me.(Leigh's diskette wont boot: immediate return

7200 systemboot

2004-11-30 Thread Patrik
This is the first time i install any OS so i need some help. Tryed to install on my WGS 7250/90, came through the basic install without problem, and choose quik as boot, as recommended. Before i have read about problems with bugs in OF. and when i still had Mac os i only got a black screen when i

Apple PowerMacintosh Beige G3, Revision 2, Open Firmware 2.4

2004-11-30 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi everyone, Here are the instructions to boot this machine: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v2. Unfortunately, I have no legacy MacOS. My sole MacOSX runs only on a laptop with no floppy drive. I request a little from someone who has a MacOS version above 8.0 running on a

Re: build transcode for powerpc

2004-11-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:09:19PM +0200, Pander wrote: Hi all, Building transcode for powerpc from source doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how to build transcode with debian on a powerpc? I have uploaded transcode and avifile packages to:

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Could is be something related to hard-drive activity? Or is the processor just doing more work? did the powernowd change? I used to just keep my laptop running during the night having it right besides my bed. downloading stuff... Never was a problem. But now it keeps activating the fan wich is

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Richard Hult
Timo Reimerdes wrote: Could is be something related to hard-drive activity? Or is the processor just doing more work? did the powernowd change? This is without running any frequency scaling at all (no powernod, cpydyn, or cpufreqd), and also without spinning down the hard drive. It's a bit

Re: gnome-session (Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display)

2004-11-30 Thread froinds
On Nov 30, 2004, at 3:41 AM, David Pye wrote: On Tuesday 30 November 2004 06:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm trying to open a remote session in this manner and getting the error below ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] then after successfully logging in gnome-session which leads me to this

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Richard Hult wrote: This is without running any frequency scaling at all (no powernod, cpydyn, or cpufreqd), and also without spinning down the hard drive. Would anybody provide a short description of which one of these frequency scaling packages (powernowd, cpudyn, cpufreqd)

problems installing Debian on iBook G3 - The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy from disk failed

2004-11-30 Thread Rodrigo Weymar
Hi all, I am trying to (re)install Debian Woody 3.0 R3 on an iBook G3 600 Mhz, but I get the following error messages: user.info dbootstrap [81]: installing kernel and modules from /instmnt/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current user.info dbootstrap [81]: segmentation fault user.info dbootstrap

Re: problems installing Debian on iBook G3 - The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy from disk failed

2004-11-30 Thread James Tappin
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:55:34 + (GMT) Rodrigo Weymar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW Hi all, RW RW I am trying to (re)install Debian Woody 3.0 R3 on an RW iBook G3 600 Mhz, but I get the following error RW messages: RW RW user.info dbootstrap [81]: installing kernel and RW modules from RW

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Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Jaume Sabater
Rogério Brito wrote: This is without running any frequency scaling at all (no powernod, cpydyn, or cpufreqd), and also without spinning down the hard drive. I can't tell about powernod, but the author of cpudyn is a friend of mine and he did it because he didn't like cpufreqd. I am using

Re: problems installing Debian on iBook G3 - The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy from disk failed

2004-11-30 Thread Sean Jewett
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, James Tappin wrote: The fact that you are getting a segmentation fault on two different installation media sets suggests bad memory. Unfortunately I don't think there's a bootable memory tester for powerpc. He might see if there's a hardware diagnostics disc for his iBook

Re: Debian 3.0.23 on 43P-150

2004-11-30 Thread Philippe Guyot
I have the same configuration as Johan (IBM 43P-150, a true CHRP one). I burned the netinst.iso as suggested and tried to boot it ( OFboot cdrom) OF says unrecognized Client program format state not valid should it be a bug to report ? Friendly Felipe. On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Pau Rul·lan Ferragut
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 15:54, Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 30 2004, Richard Hult wrote: Also, which one integrates better with laptop-mode? I'm thinking of using laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its HD). Umm... perhaps it is a long shot, but I would

Re: Go5200 and external VGA status?

2004-11-30 Thread Djoume SALVETTI
Le dimanche 11/28/04 Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : System: PowerBook 1.33GHz G4 12 nVIDIA Go5200 64MB From the list archives, I gather VGA out (with the DVI port + adapter) for this system is not supported under Linux. This is currently the only roadblock for me running

Re: Go5200 and external VGA status?

2004-11-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:04:25PM +0100, Djoume SALVETTI wrote: Le dimanche 11/28/04 Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : System: PowerBook 1.33GHz G4 12 nVIDIA Go5200 64MB From the list archives, I gather VGA out (with the DVI port + adapter) for this system is not supported

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2004-11-30 Thread froinds
Hi I have an Apple Cinema 23 display (brushed metal). Does anyone know the values for the horizontal and vertical frecuency to enter into the xserver-xfree86 configuration for this monitor? When X starts the screen goes black, as if it was turned off.

Frequency values for Apple Cinema 23

2004-11-30 Thread froinds
Hi I have an Apple Cinema 23 display (brushed metal). Does anyone know the values for the horizontal and vertical frecuency to enter into the xserver-xfree86 configuration for this monitor? When X starts the screen goes black, as if it was turned off.

Re: Go5200 and external VGA status?

2004-11-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:23:58PM +0100, Djoume SALVETTI wrote: Le mardi 11/30/04 Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Is it only a problem of sync frequencies with the LCD? When X is running on the external monitor the LCD seems to display the same picture but only with a bad

Re: ATI Rage128 video out didn't work

2004-11-30 Thread Julien BLACHE
Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there any reason this patch isnt in the kernel? would be nice to have it in the debian packaged kernel rather than having to rebuild. This patch reverts changes made to prom_init.c around kernel 2.4.21, which are necessary for some machines.

Re: ATI Rage128 video DID work, but...

2004-11-30 Thread peter plessas
Hi! I had the same problem with my pismo/ATI Rage 128 and just compiled a new 2.6.8 with the aforementioned changes to prom_init.c. After doing the Option UseFBDev and Option sw_cursor changes to my X config, the second VGA out works! Thanks very much for the help! But there is another

Re: Go5200 and external VGA status?

2004-11-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:43:53PM +0100, Joerg Maier wrote: Is my awful view on the pbook TFT due to the X11 version and does this change after upgrading to x.org? Or did i miss the reconfiguration? i Do you use rivafb in the kernel? -- Guido

Re: problems installing Debian on iBook G3 - The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy from disk failed

2004-11-30 Thread Cedric Pradalier
The fact that you are getting a segmentation fault on two different installation media sets suggests bad memory. Unfortunately I don't think there's a bootable memory tester for powerpc. Actually, there is one in the apple utilities CD provided with the machine. At least with my G3 800 --

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support

2004-11-30 Thread Simon Vallet
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:05:03 +0100 Peter 'p2' De Schrijver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The quik.conf should be : image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.9-powerpc append=root=/dev/ram video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.9-powerpc Label=test this works indeed *much* better :-) The

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:02 +0100, Richard Hult wrote: Timo Reimerdes wrote: Could is be something related to hard-drive activity? Or is the processor just doing more work? did the powernowd change? This is without running any frequency scaling at all (no powernod, cpydyn, or cpufreqd),

Re: slower xine since 2.6.8-2.6.9 ?

2004-11-30 Thread Joerg Sommer
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been experiencing that xine playback of divx video has become slower between 2.6.8(could play real-time)-2.6.9(cannot play real-time) Does anyone share the same experience? Me, too. But I don't know since and if I updated xine since then.

Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hi, for about a week now I am using ubuntu linux on my powerbook. It runs really nice for allmost everything I want. Two issues I haven't got to work: Sleep (with the latest sleep patch by benh) which would be s nice Airport Extreme (Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)) The

Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Timo Reimerdes wrote: Hi, for about a week now I am using ubuntu linux on my powerbook. It runs really nice for allmost everything I want. Two issues I haven't got to work: Sleep (with the latest sleep patch by benh) which would be s nice Airport Extreme (Broadcom Corporation BCM94306

Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hi, One thing that might be nice and save some bandwidth: Give a config only link. :) The sources I have here on my computer. Will compile them myself. I guess the .config is in the sources? *downloads* Airport isn't all that important, since I still have an old pcmcia thing somewhere around.

Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Ok, I installed your precompiled kernel. It installed without any problems. I updated the /etc/yaboot.conf and executed ybin. Then the reboot: some error messages about kernel: cdrom: open failed. kernel: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed kernel: device-mapper: error adding

Re: Frequency values for Apple Cinema 23

2004-11-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 13:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have an Apple Cinema 23 display (brushed metal). Does anyone know the values for the horizontal and vertical frecuency to enter into the xserver-xfree86 configuration for this monitor? When X starts the screen goes black, as

TEST: Sleep patch #6

2004-11-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
(As usual, I'm cross posting several lists, please don't reply to all of them, and CC me as I'm not subscribed to all of them neither) Ok, here's the 6th version of the sleep patch for ATI based albooks iBook G4. Other machine users, please test too as it may cause regressions (or improvements)