Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kim Cascone wrote: On Mar 2, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: If you've got the ubuntu install CD boot from that, then hit 'tab' at the yaboot prompt. There is an image called rescue (or something very like that) there are: install-powerpc custom-powerpc

Re: iMac Mini

2005-03-03 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Thanks all. I'm now installing deb, and will see how to get the remaining bits working. I looked back through the archives and couldn't figure out which are the tbits that don't work. I'm typing this on a Mac Mini right now.

Re: iMac Mini

2005-03-03 Thread Colin Leroy
On 03 Mar 2005 at 00h03, Paul J. Lucas wrote: Hi, I looked back through the archives and couldn't figure out which are the tbits that don't work. I'm typing this on a Mac Mini right now. Does the sound work ? -- \|/ \|/ Colin @'/ ,. \`@

ibook2 r128 xv colour corruption

2005-03-03 Thread Lee Braiden
Hi all :) I've noticed a driver-ish problem with Xv recently, with my ATI Rage 128 mobility M3... When playing large movies (say 800x600; definitely 1024x768) using Xv, it seems to be unable to allocate the memory required. As a result, mplayer crashes, and xine shows only a green screen.

Re: iMac Mini

2005-03-03 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Colin Leroy wrote: I looked back through the archives and couldn't figure out which are the tbits that don't work. I'm typing this on a Mac Mini right now. Does the sound work ? I don't know... not tried it. (I personally don't care since

CUDAMGR (was Automatic power-on or pmacpow--would a .deb be worthwhile?)

2005-03-03 Thread gerard
Hello, an other interesting think to include in this future package could be CUDAMGR. Her is a repost of an old post of this list that I found on Google, that is interesting. I just install it on my old PowerMac that I now use as Fax Server ... gerard Hey all, On 31 Aug, this message from

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-03 Thread Sebastien NOEL
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:22:49 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Ok, the address shows that it happens in a module. Unfortunately, xmon in ppc32 doesn't know yet how to use kallsyms so it can't get symbols out of modules. Can you do a cat /proc/modules before the crash, then crash it,

Powerbook 12 and vga-out

2005-03-03 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
Hi all, Is there anyway to get the nv driver to work with the vga-out on my Powerbook 12 with a fx5200? I've tried playing around with the CrtcNumber option but it doesn't seem to do anything and instead, I get a blank screen on both monitor and LCD. Any help on the subject will be appreciated.

Re: Problems Playing Videos (audio track is choppy) (PB5,4)

2005-03-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:02:08PM +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: On 20:58 Wed 02 Mar , Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: I have always had similar problems playing video, with all video players. The audio is choppy and video goes out of sync with it after a pause/resume. Also, it seems to

Re: Problems Playing Videos (audio track is choppy) (PB5,4)

2005-03-03 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 12:51 Thu 03 Mar , Guido Guenther wrote: lavdopts:idct=2 ^^^ not needed since we build ffmpeg with gcc-3.4 now. I see. Thanks for the info! pgpYGnJGlry66.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems Playing Videos (audio track is choppy) (PB5,4)

2005-03-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:58:43PM +, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libavcodec-cvs.so: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0fe9d7fc for symbol `fprintf' out of range [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Unprelink and turn prelink

Re: Problems Playing Videos (audio track is choppy) (PB5,4)

2005-03-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:58:43PM +, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libavcodec-cvs.so: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0fe9d7fc for symbol `fprintf' out of range [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Could you try the latest

TiBook IV and Kernel 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi subscribers, my Machine is an TiBook IV mit the Radeon 9000 Mobility running debian sid. I´ve compiled 2.6.11 vanilla and had the problem that the system hang on booting at the beginning when drm is initialized. DRM support and radeon driver were compiled in. Now I´ve changed to compile drm

Re: Powerbook 12 and vga-out

2005-03-03 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:53 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:55:33AM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: Is there anyway to get the nv driver to work with the vga-out on my Powerbook 12 with a fx5200? I've tried playing around with the CrtcNumber option but it doesn't seem to

Rebooting as a cron job?

2005-03-03 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody! Is it OK to reboot every couple of days with a cron job? Thanks!! Charles Read -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rebooting as a cron job?

2005-03-03 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 08:15 Thu 03 Mar , Charles Read wrote: Hey everybody! Is it OK to reboot every couple of days with a cron job? Technically no problem, but why would you want to do that? Confused, Moritz pgp2hwFJK2AGT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-03 Thread Des Johnston
Just to confirm - with 2.6.11 my iBook G4 sleep works just fine and dandy provided I unplug my DWL-122 in advance :) Nice work. DesJ On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:12 +0100, steinm wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:44:25PM +0100, steinm wrote:

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-03-03 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:04 -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote: I recently reinstalled Sarge PPC on a G4 iMac. Each time I boot up now, I get an error warning: I think I need pinching -- I just logged into GNOME and the error didn't appear. I rebooted just to make sure I hadn't clicked OK out

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:30:06PM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:25 -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: But that looks like lots of good news for me: It seems the system is offering you to boot an old kernel: Did you try

alsaconf package?

2005-03-03 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- Upraded from Woody to 2.6.8 on my Pismo and in getting all the ALSA packages this morning, ran into the following: I 'apt-get install alsa-base' and was recommended to install a few other packages, notably 'alsa-conf-0.4'. I 'apt-get install alsaconf' as this was what the Debian package

Re: Rebooting as a cron job?

2005-03-03 Thread tab
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:31:39PM +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: Is it OK to reboot every couple of days with a cron job? Technically no problem, but why would you want to do that? perfectly emulating windows ? sorry couldn't resist ;) -- Vincent Hanquez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Powerbook 12 and vga-out

2005-03-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:07:35PM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:53 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:55:33AM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: Is there anyway to get the nv driver to work with the vga-out on my Powerbook 12 with a fx5200? I've tried

***appletalk.ko ipddp.ko***

2005-03-03 Thread Kim Cascone
On Mar 3, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: ... which for simply fixing netatalk is a much easier aprroach than the chroot one I was mentioning before. Michel is right, Kim: For this case I'd forget the chroot solution ... :) I can't thank all of you enough for the patient hand holding!

mkvmlinuz: how to use?

2005-03-03 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Google did not help me, nor the list archives. What is exactly mkvmlinuz, and how to use it? What I could gather is that it puts a reduced version of the kernel somewhere in OpenFirmware, so one can do without yaboot. But then how to boot? -- Leandro Guimares Faria

Re: mkvmlinuz: how to use?

2005-03-03 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:19 -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Google did not help me, nor the list archives. What is exactly mkvmlinuz, and how to use it? What I could gather is that it puts a reduced version of the kernel somewhere in OpenFirmware, so

Re: initrd.img ?

2005-03-03 Thread Eric Cooper
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:04:26PM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:32 -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: If one is compiling a custom kernel, does one need the initrd.img file? I've compiled kernels before (it's been a while, however), and I don't remember

Re: initrd.img ?

2005-03-03 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric Cooper wrote: If you compile in enough drivers, instead of making them modules, you won't need an initrd. Enough means at least the driver for your hard disk, the filesystem for your root partition, and maybe your keyboard, mouse, and video. Why wouldn't you

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-03 Thread Uwe Steinmann
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:22:13PM +0100, Sebastien NOEL wrote: [last mail seem to have been lost on the way] this crash look like /dev/random, one time i have xmon, another time not; one time the keyboard works in xmon, another time not :/ I tried with 2.6.9 and the crash happens

Re: ***appletalk.ko ipddp.ko***

2005-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:28:24AM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: - I went in and removed two files from the kernal: - appletalk.ko - ipddp.ko Oh! If these files were in something like /lib/modules/your-kernel/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.ko and something

Re: initrd.img ?

2005-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric Cooper wrote: If you compile in enough drivers, instead of making them modules, you won't need an initrd. Enough means at least the driver for your hard disk, the filesystem for your root partition, and maybe your

xterm problem on my powerbook

2005-03-03 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is the following: xterm does not work! It opens a window but then dies immediately with the following error message. xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/1 Does anybody else see this problem? Is there

Re: initrd.img ?

2005-03-03 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: Debian, like any other distro, tries to support a large number of machines with a single kernel. For that, it makes sense to build everything as modules. Right, but my question is in the context of building one's own kernel. - Paul -- To

Re: keyboard layout under X11

2005-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: Hello, since yesterday I am proud owner of a shiny new Apple powerbook G4. My attempts to run Debian on it are summarised at http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/ My question for now is: is there a simple way to get the keyboard working correctly

Re: CUDAMGR (was Automatic power-on or pmacpow--would a .deb be worthwhile?)

2005-03-03 Thread Mich Lanners
Hey all, On 3 Mar, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: Hello, an other interesting think to include in this future package could be CUDAMGR. LOL :-) Somebody's actually using it! Cool!. No, seriously, I hacked that together a long time ago, but server mode

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-03 Thread steinm
Finally got a change to stick in the apple hardware test cd and it revealed a problem with the extra 512MB memory bar. Without the extra memory it is slow but works :-) Uwe On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:14:39PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: Hi, I've got a serious problem with my ibook/G4.

Reproducable crash of linux 2.6.x on iBook/G4

2005-03-03 Thread steinm
Hi, I'm currently in big trouble because my iBook/G4 (bought a couple of weeks ago) is crashing all the time. There has been occasional crashes in the past which I thought were related to the sleep support and linux-wlan-ng. Since yesterday it crashes during file system check of any partition. I

Re: initrd.img ?

2005-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:39:10PM -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: Debian, like any other distro, tries to support a large number of machines with a single kernel. For that, it makes sense to build everything as modules. Right, but my question is

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
this crash look like /dev/random, one time i have xmon, another time not; one time the keyboard works in xmon, another time not :/ Ok, looks like memory corruption then. What is your CPU model ? It could be the RAM thing you told me about, or it could be the cache flushing... Ben. -- To

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 22:13 +0100, steinm wrote: Finally got a change to stick in the apple hardware test cd and it revealed a problem with the extra 512MB memory bar. Without the extra memory it is slow but works :-) Yes, I noticed that MacOS seem to be less sensitive to problems with extra

Re: TiBook IV and Kernel 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:37 +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: Hi subscribers, my Machine is an TiBook IV mit the Radeon 9000 Mobility running debian sid. I´ve compiled 2.6.11 vanilla and had the problem that the system hang on booting at the beginning when drm is initialized. DRM support and

Re: ibook2 r128 xv colour corruption

2005-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:47 +, Lee Braiden wrote: Hi all :) I've noticed a driver-ish problem with Xv recently, with my ATI Rage 128 mobility M3... When playing large movies (say 800x600; definitely 1024x768) using Xv, it seems to be unable to allocate the memory required. As a

2.6.11 with sleep and linux-wlan-ng drivers

2005-03-03 Thread =?utf-8?q?Kjetil_=C3=98rbekk?=
Does anyone have a .deb, since I am too lazy to do it myself? A .config could do the job too. -- Kjetil Orbekk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 01:32 +0100, Sebastien NOEL wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:40:48 +1100 , Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: this crash look like /dev/random, one time i have xmon, another time not; one time the keyboard works in xmon, another time not :/ Ok, looks like memory

Graceful exit from TWM/X Windows?

2005-03-03 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- I'm stuck in TWM/X Windows because, I believe, I forgot to add the -exitonFail parameter to an xconsole entry in my .xsession file. So I'm staring at my root window and a console window that says Couldn't open console. Nothing more. Doesn't seem like I can switch to another terminal.

Re: CUDAMGR (was Automatic power-on or pmacpow--would a .deb be worthwhile?)

2005-03-03 Thread Mauro
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 22:17 +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: Hey all, On 3 Mar, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: Hello, an other interesting think to include in this future package could be CUDAMGR. LOL :-) Somebody's actually using it! Cool!. No, seriously, I

Exit solved, but I don't know what I did...

2005-03-03 Thread vze26m98
Well, I was able to break out with, I think, a key combination of: (Ctl-Opt-Cmd-F12) ...which gave me a cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. I think then I was able to get to the F6 terminal and login. Can anyone tell me what I did? Best, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Hard Disk install on a new PowerMac G5

2005-03-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Francois == Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francois downloaded initrd.gz and a kernel image (vmlinux) from Francois the daily build of the netboot installer for newworld Francois powerpc [2] (on Sven's pages I think). Francois [2] Francois

Re: backing up before debian install

2005-03-03 Thread vinai
1. is it OK for debian and OS X if I just shrink the OS X partition using partman, and put an ext3 filesystem partition after it? Or should I put it before, etc, or the whole thing is not relevant? I'm not sure. There was a discussion on this list sometime within the last couple of