Re: Sound drivers for newer machines: need help

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:49:23 +0200 Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... I'm curios: Why _echo_ `cat foo`??? To get the \n that's missing at the end of /proc/device-tree/model, I suppose :) -- Colin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Kernel-image-2.6.11(fixed typo)

2005-04-11 Thread Michael
Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:55:49PM -0700, Michael wrote: I did apt-get update today and installed the latest version of the kernel image 2.6.11 package, whether that is still 2.6.11-1 I don't remember, but actually under the advice of Sven I did install the powerpc-smp one.

scaling_available_frequencies

2005-04-11 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
Hi list: Playing with "cpufreq-selector" I get a seg. fault and after 'stracing' it I get this: open("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ An

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:00:54 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch (applies on top of my previous one adding support for newer > machines) improves the behaviour of the "tumbler/snapper" driver used > on newer PowerMacs during sleep. It properly set the HW mutes to s

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 10:18 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:00:54 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch (applies on top of my previous one adding support for newer > > machines) improves the behaviour of the "tumbler/snapper" driver used > >

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:34:34 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 10:18 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:00:54 +1000 > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This patch (applies on top of my previous one adding

Re: Problem compiling SMU driver [was: Cross compiling linux-2.6.12-rc1 G4 -> G5]

2005-04-11 Thread Francois
Hi all, On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 06:57, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Apr 10, 2005 5:07 PM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just sticking in my two cents on this one. When you say Xcode and > > Darwin on your G5 I am assuming you mean Pather (OS 10.3) and in my > > experience I have also found t

Noise in X bitmaps. Beige G3.

2005-04-11 Thread David Deans
Hi, I posted this yesterday but recieved no responses, probably because of the pretty ambiguous subject line :-/ . I'm currently running Debian Linux Sarge on an old beige Powermac G3, 266Mhz. Up till now I have run the machine without X without problems, but due to problems with my Wintel laptop

Fwd: Re: alsa juk

2005-04-11 Thread Ray Kohler
Sounds like your mixer settings are lost at reboot, so the sound is there but too quiet to hear. Do 'dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base' and choose "always autosave". That way whatever sound levels you choose (use 'alsamixer' to set them) will be saved when you shut down and reloaded when you boot. -Ray

Re: Problem compiling SMU driver [was: Cross compiling linux-2.6.12-rc1 G4 -> G5]

2005-04-11 Thread Charles Lepple
On Apr 11, 2005 4:55 AM, Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 06:57, Charles Lepple wrote: > > On Apr 10, 2005 5:07 PM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just sticking in my two cents on this one. When you say Xcode and > > > Darwin on your G5 I am assumi

Re: Kernel-imaage-2.6.11

2005-04-11 Thread vinai
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:55:49PM -0700, Michael wrote: ... And just to clarify I know it says this because I have booted with video=ofonly, logged in, and then run startx, but the framebuffer I am suposed to use is aty128fb. But my fear is that if the vid

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:00:54 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Hi ! > > This patch (applies on top of my previous one adding support for newer > machines) improves the behaviour of the "tumbler/snapper" driver used on > newer PowerMacs during sleep. It properly set the HW mutes to shut dow

Re: Sound drivers for newer machines: need help

2005-04-11 Thread Bernhard Reiter
PowerBook 15" post feb-2005: I can confirm the quoted readings and I am not getting another message by find like Ben. On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:50:30AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > PowerBook5,6 > > > for i in `find /proc/device-tree -name layout-id -print`; do echo $i && > > hexdump -n4 $i; do

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:45:00AM +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:34:34 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 10:18 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > I suppose it also fixes the occasionnal loud static noise that > > > sometimes at

Re: Noise in X bitmaps. Beige G3.

2005-04-11 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:50:30AM +0100, David Deans wrote: > I'm currently running Debian Linux Sarge on an old beige Powermac G3, > 266Mhz. Up till now I have run the machine without X without problems, > However, X seems to suffer from occasional problems in rendering the > screen. Every now a

Re: [PATCH] pmac: sound support for latest laptops

2005-04-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:16:32 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Hi ! > > This patch hacks the current Alsa snd-powermac driver to add support for > recent machine models with the tas3004 chip, that is basically new > laptop models. The Mac Mini is _NOT_ yet supported by this patch (soon > s

Re: [PATCH] pmac: sound support for latest laptops

2005-04-11 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi, This patch hacks the current Alsa snd-powermac driver to add support for recent machine models with the tas3004 chip, that is basically new laptop models. The Mac Mini is _NOT_ yet supported by this patch (soon soon ...). The G5s (iMac or Desktop) will need the rewritten sound driver on which I

Re: alsa juk

2005-04-11 Thread Francois
Hallo Björn, on my PowerBook G4 I've notice that the sound volume is set to minimum when I reboot. This occurs since my last update. You might have the same problem. Have you tried explicitly setting the volume (with pbbuttons, alsamixer, or any similar appli)? This does not really solve your prob

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:39:22 +0200 Bernhard Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a side comment: > I had static noise with my lombard for a while. > My lombard developed really strange habits and is in non-usable state > now. Still this sound problem was there and the bug only got closed > bec

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Wouter van Heyst
> Just a side comment: > I had static noise with my lombard for a while. > My lombard developed really strange habits and is in non-usable state now. > Still this sound problem was there and the bug only got closed > because the maintainer did not believe me. :( What strange habits? Wouter van

Re: [PATCH] pmac: sound support for latest laptops

2005-04-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:07:29 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Hi, > > >This patch hacks the current Alsa snd-powermac driver to add support for > >recent machine models with the tas3004 chip, that is basically new > >laptop models. The Mac Mini is _NOT_ yet supported by this patch (soon > >soon ..

win32codecs

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I'm assuming that the w32codecs package (which allows proprietary windoze formats to be played with mplayer et al) are not available for ppc. At least, I haven't been able to find them. Has anyone had any success with this? Someone just sent me a bunch of videos that use the latest wm

Re: win32codecs

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:50:37AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > I'm assuming that the w32codecs package (which allows proprietary > windoze formats to be played with mplayer et al) are not available for > ppc. At least, I haven't been able to find them. Has anyone had any > success w

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:25:56PM +0200, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > > Just a side comment: > > I had static noise with my lombard for a while. > > My lombard developed really strange habits and is in non-usable state now. > > Still this sound problem was there and the bug only got closed > > becaus

Re: Playing WMV 9

2005-04-11 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
TeÃfilo Ruiz SuÃrez wrote: > Is there any codec to play .wmv files in Linux/PPC?. I've installed > almost everything from the marillat's ppc repository but xine still > gives me that "videoCodec missing" message. I can watch some WMVs with mplayer[1] here, not all though since WMV is only a contai

Re: [G5] Mirrored characters on the console [was Re: Problem compiling SMU driver]

2005-04-11 Thread Francois
> Hrm... weird... could either be some problem with userland trying to > change the console font, or maybe some of the old problems with VGA > console vs. fbdev ... was your build really clean ? If you backup > your .config, do make distclean, restore .config, make oldconfig, and > rebuild, does it

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-04-11 10:18:53 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > I suppose it also fixes the occasionnal loud static noise that > sometimes at wakeup, for example on iBook G4s. Good :) Could this be related to this bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244467 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Sound drivers for newer machines: need help

2005-04-11 Thread Ben Hill
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:30 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > PowerBook 15" post feb-2005: > I can confirm the quoted readings > and I am not getting another message by find like Ben. Ignore that message - it's unrelated to the sound device. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerpri

Re: alsa juk

2005-04-11 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Francois, on Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:18:49 +0100, >Hallo Björn, > >on my PowerBook G4 I've notice that the sound volume is set to minimum >when I reboot. This occurs since my last update. You might have the same >problem. Have you tried explicitly setting the volume (with pbbuttons, >alsa

Re: win32codecs

2005-04-11 Thread Mauro
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 12:02 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:50:37AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > I'm assuming that the w32codecs package (which allows proprietary > > windoze formats to be played with mplayer et al) are not available for > > ppc. At least,

Re: does sleep work with the patched 2.6.10 kernel?

2005-04-11 Thread Mauro
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 21:11 -0600, Mauro wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:15 +0930, John Steele Scott wrote: > > Ubuntu Hoary includes a 2.6.10 version where sleep works. However, > > after wake, > > the USB ports don't function. Tested on my iBook G4 (April 2004), but > > I'm not > > sure which v

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Andreas Schwab
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-04-11 10:18:53 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: >> I suppose it also fixes the occasionnal loud static noise that >> sometimes at wakeup, for example on iBook G4s. Good :) > > Could this be related to this bug? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Re: [PATCH] pmac: sound support for latest laptops

2005-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 17:07 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > >This patch hacks the current Alsa snd-powermac driver to add support for > >recent machine models with the tas3004 chip, that is basically new > >laptop models. The Mac Mini is _NOT_ yet supported by this patch (soon > >soon ...).

Re: [G5] Mirrored characters on the console [was Re: Problem compiling SMU driver]

2005-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 18:23 +0100, Francois wrote: > > Hrm... weird... could either be some problem with userland trying to > > change the console font, or maybe some of the old problems with VGA > > console vs. fbdev ... was your build really clean ? If you backup > > your .config, do make distcle

Re: Noise in X bitmaps. Beige G3.

2005-04-11 Thread David Deans
On Apr 11, 2005 3:47 PM, Bernhard Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:50:30AM +0100, David Deans wrote: > My old lombard used to render artifacts in images > and it was introduced at some point with an update of the xserver. > It also had a rage pro. > > You could try s

"snow" when turning down brightness

2005-04-11 Thread Tamas K Papp
This is really weird, it is the first time I see this. I keep turning the brightness down with pbbutoonsd, and are at the point where it should go blank. But it does not! I get this: http://www.princeton.edu/~tpapp/snow.jpg http://www.princeton.edu/~tpapp/snow.avi (the latters shows this shot

Re: "snow" when turning down brightness

2005-04-11 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:54:29PM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote: > This is really weird, it is the first time I see this. I keep turning > the brightness down with pbbutoonsd, and are at the point where it > should go blank. But it does not! I get this: I saw something similar with the recent kern

Re: "snow" when turning down brightness

2005-04-11 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:12:35PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:54:29PM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote: > > This is really weird, it is the first time I see this. I keep turning > > the brightness down with pbbutoonsd, and are at the point where it > > should go blank. But it

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

2005-04-11 Thread Horms
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:53:28PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:12:39AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:04:20PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Are there debian machines

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

2005-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:38:31PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I may be able to provide a pegasos box to whoever decides to take over > > this > > burden, but can't promise anything. Do you volunteer for that ? > > I am happy to buil