Re: ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 01:57 +0200, Moritz Lutz wrote: > Hi there, > i got someproblems with my airport. I want to set an 128bit ascii wep > key. I'm running a 2.6.11 kernel image i installed with apt-get > install! can you tell me the firmware version of the airport card ? It should be displayed i

Re: NIC kernel error

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 17:37 -0600, Peter Spuhler wrote: > My network hangs every so often and the following message appears on ttys0 > > eth0: RX MAC fifo overflow smac[00810400] > > running kernel 2.6.11-powerpc-smp and the network chip in my G4 > according to lspci is > Apple UniNorth GMAC (S

Re: Yaboot - does yaboot support splash?

2005-05-18 Thread Brian Benson
I've used both bootsplash and gensplash on my ibook. Yaboot just specifies the initrd file that contains the images. It's all in the docs. BTW, I like gensplash better. -Brian Ibook 600Mhz(dual usb) On 5/9/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:56:14PM +0300

Re: MOL

2005-05-18 Thread Mauro Parra
Hello, On 5/18/05, Fallen_Angel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, it's been a while since I have posted to this list, and for that I > apologize. >Am I still welcome to post here since I have changed to > ubuntu? Maybe if the question is pretty focused in ubuntu, you should ask in the ubuntu

NIC kernel error

2005-05-18 Thread Peter Spuhler
My network hangs every so often and the following message appears on ttys0 eth0: RX MAC fifo overflow smac[00810400] running kernel 2.6.11-powerpc-smp and the network chip in my G4 according to lspci is Apple UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 01) Has anyone experienced this message? If so is this a k

MOL

2005-05-18 Thread Fallen_Angel
Hi, it's been a while since I have posted to this list, and for that I apologize. Am I still welcome to post here since I have changed to ubuntu? At first I would think no, but then again it is based on SID, so I am not sure. Well if not tell me, and I will duck out, but if so I have a quest

ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-18 Thread Moritz Lutz
Hi there, i got someproblems with my airport. I want to set an 128bit ascii wep key. I'm running a 2.6.11 kernel image i installed with apt-get install! The error is: ibook:/home/espo# iwconfig eth0 key "s:" Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth0 ; Oper

Re: Battery charge cycles

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:50 +0200, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > Joerg Sommer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux > > too? > > > > http://www-astro.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/users/masai/darwin-app.html > > > > JÃrg. > > Pbbuttonsd has an opt

Re: Battery charge cycles

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:46 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux > > too? > > > > http://www-astro.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/users/masai/darwin-app.html > > Very interesting... Benjamin, is t

Re: PPC G5 SMU driver

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:36 +0200, Baobab wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry to burst in mid-discussion. > I've just got hold of a G5 1.8Ghz and like others I'm frustrated with > the linux fan support. > Is the SMU unit not carated for in the SMBIOS driver? I was having a > look at the Darwin code and i

Debian on G5 1.6 SP and on dual G5 Xserves

2005-05-18 Thread Wesley Smith
Hi, I was wondering what the possibilities were for installing debian for both a 1.6G G5 SP tower and DP G5 xserves on exetrnal firewire HDs. I'd like to set things up so that I can plug the HD into the tower and have it boot from that disk into debian. I'd also like to be able to do the same th

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Re: Battery charge cycles

2005-05-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux > too? > > http://www-astro.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/users/masai/darwin-app.html Very interesting... Benjamin, is there any chance to find some code in Darwin for that ? I really hope the

Re: imac shuts down alone

2005-05-18 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
Sebastien Mengin wrote: [...] > It's an old imac, 1999, and I installed sarge on it almost two years ago. > In fact, it might worth trying a 2.6 kernel... Sorry, I read "mac mini" when in fact you wrote "imac". But if the problem definately does not occur when using osx then a 2.6 kernel might ind

PPC G5 SMU driver

2005-05-18 Thread Baobab
Hi all, Sorry to burst in mid-discussion. I've just got hold of a G5 1.8Ghz and like others I'm frustrated with the linux fan support. Is the SMU unit not carated for in the SMBIOS driver? I was having a look at the Darwin code and it seems to mention the System Management in the code. I'm not t

Re: imac shuts down alone

2005-05-18 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 18 mai 2005 à 09:54, Johannes Mockenhaupt a écrit: > Sebastien Mengin wrote: > > I have an Imac running debian sarge 2.4.18. > > Sometimes, when we don't use it for a moment, it shuts down completely > > without any warning. > > Is there any special reason you're chosing a 2.4 kernel over a 2.6

Re: Battery charge cycles

2005-05-18 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Wed, 18 May 2005 13:50:53 + (UTC) Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux > too? Pbbuttond does this if enabled. See option batlog. Best Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: imac shuts down alone

2005-05-18 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
Sebastien Mengin wrote: > I have an Imac running debian sarge 2.4.18. > Sometimes, when we don't use it for a moment, it shuts down completely > without any warning. Is there any special reason you're chosing a 2.4 kernel over a 2.6 kernel? I would think a 2.6 kernel would be much better suited fo

Re: Battery charge cycles

2005-05-18 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux > too? > > http://www-astro.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/users/masai/darwin-app.html > > Jörg. Pbbuttonsd has an option you might like (quoting pbbutonsd.conf(5)): batlog = battery log mode (default:

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 18:36, Mauro wrote: > I'm not a corder but I believe this would involve creating a library > such as the one proposed for L4 for memory management. This would > entail taking an app's word for how much memory they need, regardless of > this being in user space or in the ke

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Mauro
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:25 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > Wouldn't that be a lot simpler and more reliable? I mean, > you could still assume a default workload for apps that haven't added > those > few extra lines of code to optimise for Linux. I'm not a corder but I believe this would involve cre

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I found this document: >> http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/2EF555D341769CE787256E470077DD3D/$file/750gx_um_pub.pdf > > Ah, I didn't reali

Re: imac shuts down alone

2005-05-18 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 18 mai 2005 à 08:58, Mauro a écrit: > > Might be a problem with the X server on this machine - if the screen saver > > kicks in and starts running code that hangs up your X server, the machine > > might power down after a while (the PMU getting confused because the > > processor isn't handling i

Battery charge cycles

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux too? http://www-astro.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/users/masai/darwin-app.html Jörg. -- Der kommt den Göttern am nächsten, der auch dann schweigen kann, wenn er im Recht ist. (Cato; 234-149 v. Chr.) --

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I took the false values. It is not only putting the value into the >> register. To enable ictc bit one of the register must be enabled. >> Unfortunately I tried powers of two. :-( Now with 15 (divider = 10

Re: imac shuts down alone

2005-05-18 Thread Mauro
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:45 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I have an Imac running debian sarge 2.4.18. > > Sometimes, when we don't use it for a moment, it shuts down completely > > without any warning. > > > > There is no power management daemon running on this machine. > > Might be a problem

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2005-05-18 Thread Benedetta Argento
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Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 23:39, John Steele Scott wrote: > datasheet), then ICTC is only going to reduce power consumption for loads > which will be using 100% of CPU at high speed. But this application is not > particularly useful for a desktop machine. Speaking of this... kernel scheduling folks s

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread John Steele Scott
Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> the ICTC. Try some small odd values like 3 or 7 and see what happens. The >> information on ICTC usage is from "MPC7450 RISC Microprocessor Family User's >> Manual", section 10.3. > > I found this document: >

Re: Powerbook 12 Debian Sarge Sleep

2005-05-18 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:54:26AM +0200, Federico 'Pain' Pistono wrote: > Hi all, > I successfully installed Debian GNU/Linux sarge in my powerboook 12" > aluminium, using the netinstaller. > I do have a doubt, though. Google told me that there is no way still to make > the 3dacceleration to wor

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the ICTC. Try some small odd values like 3 or 7 and see what happens. The > information on ICTC usage is from "MPC7450 RISC Microprocessor Family User's > Manual", section 10.3. I found this document: http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/tec

Re: imac shuts down alone

2005-05-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I have an Imac running debian sarge 2.4.18. > Sometimes, when we don't use it for a moment, it shuts down completely > without any warning. > > There is no power management daemon running on this machine. Might be a problem with the X server on this machine - if the screen saver kicks in and sta

2.6.12-rc4 reiserfs oops - SOLVED [was:Re: Seriuos stability problem using KDE apps]

2005-05-18 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Jack Malmostoso, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Read that, thanks. I downloaded the 2.6.12-rc4 tarball and compiled it, > but I get an oops in reiserfs_panic. > > Already posted to lkml, I'll wait for an answer. Solved problem: this bug has been introduced between rc3 and rc4, and to workaroun