3d acceleration and sound

2006-01-22 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
I have powerbook 5,7 and debian sarge 3.1 stable is installed in it. I have compiled my kernel 2.6.12 after applying the patches for sound, therm-adt, synaptic touchpad, cpu-freq. But only cpu-freq and therm-adt patch seems to work. Neither touchpad nor sound works. Also i know about r300 drivers a

ybin -v not working after OS X upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Brian C
Hi, I've read the archives when others have upgraded their OS X partitions and had their boot process munged in some way. Their described solutions aren't working for me. I have been dual booting Debian and 10.3.7 for a long time b/c I knew the upgrade would somehow destroy my Debian. Well,

Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 -- OK, Windfarm???

2006-01-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 21:54 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote: > I now got a full running Debian Linux system setup on my iMac G5 > PowerMac12,1 "i-Sight" using the 2.6.16-rc1 kernel and netinstall via > Debian etch. > > -Network (eth0): OK > -using append="video=ofonly": works OK > -needed to disable a

Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 -- OK, Windfarm???

2006-01-22 Thread Percy Zahl
I now got a full running Debian Linux system setup on my iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 "i-Sight" using the 2.6.16-rc1 kernel and netinstall via Debian etch. -Network (eth0): OK -using append="video=ofonly": works OK -needed to disable any X attempts and gdm (crashes), console only works OK. (No X)

keyservers (was: public key is not available)

2006-01-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Here are some of the servers that my nameserver replies to the above > command: > > www.at.pgp.net. A 195.64.0.35 > www.au.pgp.net. A 128.232.0.23 > binwww.pgp.net. A 128.232.0.23 > www.ca.pgp.net. A

Re: bcm43xx finally working, with encryption too!!!

2006-01-22 Thread Aaron Kerr
I have found that scanning before dhcp is vital to having a working bcm43xx interface. When I try to bring up my bcm43xx interface without scanning (until I see a network) dhclient fails to get an IP address. If I scan until I see my network dhclient works every time (well almost every time). Like

Re: 2.6.16-rc1

2006-01-22 Thread Emmanuel Galatoulas
Roger Leigh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone managed to get linux-2.6.16-rc1 to boot successfully on a powermac? It appears to detect the IDE controller and HDD on my mac mini, but then fails to mount the root fs. (It's hard to double check this because the USB

g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-22 Thread Ben Wehrspann
Hello all- Recently I aquired a g3 (beige) power mac it has Open Firmware 2.4 I used system disk to patch the OF though I must admit I don't know if it actually did anything when I hit the save button. ie it didnt give me any indication of progress etc. From my reading the only way to boot

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello Matthias, [writing this mail a second time, powerbook went to sleep and crashed on wake while replying. Arghhh...] On 22 Jan, this message from Matthias Grimm echoed through cyberspace: > There are a couple of applications fiddle around with /dev/input/event > so I try to bring some light

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a ppc-specific problem On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or > > temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the > > /d

Re: G5 fan revving problems.

2006-01-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:09 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi, I am new to the list. I joined manly because I was looking for a > list that would have a PPC centric bent so that I could discuss > problems I run into. I have a 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5, running OS X Tiger > (10.4.4), so my first conce

Re: Powerbook5,8: FN key mode

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Matthias On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:52:12PM +0100, Matthias Grimm wrote: > It would be nice if you could test this feature and tell me the results. It didn't work from the start, but the patch below fixes it. After applying the patch, it works. Btw.: The illumination patch I wrote was base

Re: [PATCH 001/001] PMAC HD runtime blinking control

2006-01-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:56 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:19, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've finally spend the time to mend the patch for control of > > the HD led blinking at runtime. This is a patch against > > 2.6.15 > > I wonder if it's also po

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 22 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: > Well, the 'mouseemu eats the CPU' bug has been popping up on occasion, > I thought we had fixed that by now. Doesn't seem to be the case... >> Well, no luck, it's not that easy. Neither the fact that mouseemu is >

Re: pbbuttonsd: mouse not activity?

2006-01-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 21 Jan, this message from To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org echoed through cyberspace: > However, it would seem that mouse movements are not counted as > activity? Is that so by design, concious decision, or is it a bug? As explained by Matthias Grimm in another mail, it would appea

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-22 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:34:54 +0100 (CET) Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, no luck, it's not that easy. Neither the fact that mouseemu is > > running in parallel, nor the order in which thez are started seems to > > matter. There are a couple of applications fiddle around with

APUS Kernel panics

2006-01-22 Thread nfs
I am having trouble with sarge 2.4.27-apus on my A1200 with Blizzard PPC 603e+ card with 64Meg ram and SCSI controller with one CD-ROM attached. I was initially aware of the problem when attempting to use the dmasound_paula module and ogg123 to play some .ogg files. About 1/2 second of the file pl

Re: Try to do an homebrew WLan-Acess-Point on a Powerbook Wallstreet

2006-01-22 Thread Eric Cooper
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:36:54PM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > I try to use an old G3 Powerbook Wallstreet with broken display as Wlan > Access Point. I got a Orinoco card, which should do the job quite well. > My problem is how to tell debian/ubuntu linux to use the hostap drivers > instead o

Re: Background beeping?

2006-01-22 Thread Josh Narins
> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 08:50 -0500, Josh Narins wrote: > > I'm running sid on 2.6.11 and am using ALSA. > > > > After I boot I hear a faint alarm-like sound, with a periodicity a > > little smaller than 1 second. > > What kind of machine? I've been getting something like that when > ('something

Re: Background beeping?

2006-01-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 08:50 -0500, Josh Narins wrote: > I'm running sid on 2.6.11 and am using ALSA. > > After I boot I hear a faint alarm-like sound, with a periodicity a > little smaller than 1 second. What kind of machine? I've been getting something like that when ('something' thinks that) t

Try to do an homebrew WLan-Acess-Point on a Powerbook Wallstreet

2006-01-22 Thread Rainer Gutkas
Hello all! I try to use an old G3 Powerbook Wallstreet with broken display as Wlan Access Point. I got a Orinoco card, which should do the job quite well. My problem is how to tell debian/ubuntu linux to use the hostap drivers instead of hermes/orinoco dirvers, so I got master mode available.

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >> opens them all. But event4 ... event31 all report ENODEV. > > > > Just wondering ... Does the USB keyboard driver report events at all? > > I'll check that with an external keyboard ASAP. > > I have activity detection working now. I have no idea what made it work, > might be something to do wi

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2006-01-22 Thread Shaver Kara
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Background beeping?

2006-01-22 Thread Josh Narins
I'm running sid on 2.6.11 and am using ALSA. After I boot I hear a faint alarm-like sound, with a periodicity a little smaller than 1 second. It does not continue once any sound program (xmms, realplay) takes over, so I wouldn't call it a major problem, but it can be annoying until I plug in the

Re: [PATCH 001/001] PMAC HD runtime blinking control

2006-01-22 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:19, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > Hi, > > I've finally spend the time to mend the patch for control of > the HD led blinking at runtime. This is a patch against > 2.6.15 I wonder if it's also possible to disable blinking when laptop sleeps? -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz