Re: 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 00:06 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Did a testrun of 2.6.17-rc2 on my PowerBook 5,6 today. > > Tried to answer all the make oldconfig questions in a sensible way. ;) > > * It compiled and started without major problems. > > * I expected sound problems and yes, I had no so

Re: sleep mode power usage on powerbook5,6

2006-04-23 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Johannes, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > After approximately 18 hours of sleep under linux, my powerbook has lost > almost 25% of its battery charge. > > That seems to be too high. Sure? I see the same on my iBook G4 and I don't think 60 hours standby with a fully batt

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Magnus, Magnus Rosenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Børge Holen wrote: >> I have to install another program to shut down the trackpad then? > > Yes :-) The block-trackpad-while-typing functionality is also in > pbbuttons, but will be removed because mouseemu does the job better. Please not!

Re: sleep mode power usage on powerbook5,6

2006-04-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 00:11 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:33:23PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After approximately 18 hours of sleep under linux, my powerbook has lost > > almost 25% of its battery charge. > > > > That seems to be too high. (Ben: Yes, w

Re: 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 00:06 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > * I expected sound problems and yes, I had no sound. It looked to me as though this was some udev/kernel interaction bug, udev created /dev/controlC0 instead of /dev/snd/controlC0 et al. johannes signature.asc Description: This is

Re: sleep mode power usage on powerbook5,6

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 00:11 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > Since battery capacity decreases with time, it is > more intersting to know the absolute amount of > charge lost (it's in /proc/pmu I believe). I don't remember, but it was about 75% of 4400: max_charge : 4400 which is an almost new ba

Re: sleep mode power usage on powerbook5,6

2006-04-23 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:33:23PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > After approximately 18 hours of sleep under linux, my powerbook has lost > almost 25% of its battery charge. > > That seems to be too high. (Ben: Yes, with the marvell phy suspend > patch :) ) > > Does anyone have values fo

2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-23 Thread Bernhard Reiter
and the failre stays consistant. I am attaching more detailed data. I guess sound is on the way, but I appreciate hints on the other problems. Bernhard 20060423 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and run a 2.6.17-rc2 kernel on a ppc (PowerBook 5,6) gcc-Version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) Trying to

Re: Linking from /usr/lib/X11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts/X11/

2006-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:30:08PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi All > > How do I create safely a link from /usr/lib/X11/fonts to > /usr/share/fonts/X11/? > > The usual (?) procedure does not work here: > cd /usr/lib/X11/ > # ln --symbolic --force -i /usr/share/fonts/X11/ fonts > ln: r

Re: Airport Extreme / Etch

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 22:49 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Seems to be a side effect of some i2c stuff, investigating if ben's > patches fix it. It actually seems to be caused by a udev upgrade that insists on creating /dev/mice instead of /dev/input/mice (for example, same happens for alsa device

Re: Airport Extreme / Etch

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 22:33 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > i've tried 2.6.17-rc2 and it runs fine, but I don't have sound at the > moment. (/proc/asound/cards says "no soundcard") Seems to be a side effect of some i2c stuff, investigating if ben's patches fix it. johannes signature.asc Desc

Re: Airport Extreme / Etch

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 22:33 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > i've tried 2.6.17-rc2 and it runs fine, but I don't have sound at the > moment. (/proc/asound/cards says "no soundcard") That's odd, what machine? Do earlier kernels have sound? > > But before you use that kernel, apply the patches fr

Re: Airport Extreme / Etch

2006-04-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 21:56 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Get 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and then use make-kpkg to create a deb from > it. i've tried 2.6.17-rc2 and it runs fine, but I don't have sound at the moment. (/proc/asound/cards says "no soundcard") > But before you use that kernel, apply the p

sleep mode power usage on powerbook5,6

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi, After approximately 18 hours of sleep under linux, my powerbook has lost almost 25% of its battery charge. That seems to be too high. (Ben: Yes, with the marvell phy suspend patch :) ) Does anyone have values for OSX, or could generate some by just letting the system sleep for a night and th

Linking from /usr/lib/X11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts/X11/

2006-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All How do I create safely a link from /usr/lib/X11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts/X11/? The usual (?) procedure does not work here: cd /usr/lib/X11/ # ln --symbolic --force -i /usr/share/fonts/X11/ fonts ln: replace `fonts/X11'? y So I say: create 'fonts', and 'ln' creates 'fonts/X11'? Actually

Re: Airport Extreme / Etch

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 15:24 -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > What's the best way for me to get this running (with WPA/PSK) under Etch? > Is there a way to patch Linux 2.6.15 and get WPA support, or will I need to > build a new kernel, 2.6.17 or thereabouts? > > If I build 2.6.17 kernel, will ma

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 19:09 +0800, William Xu wrote: > I simply run the following command upon each restart, > > # trackpad notap This is for ATP touchpads *ONLY*. Please realise that the appletouch drives the *USB* touchpad in newer hardware. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
Børge Holen wrote: > I have to install another program to shut down the trackpad then? Yes :-) The block-trackpad-while-typing functionality is also in pbbuttons, but will be removed because mouseemu does the job better. > nevermind I found the /sbin/trackpad. As you already noted, this program

Re: kernel oops on snd-powermac

2006-04-23 Thread Feth AREZKI
Le Dimanche 23 Avril 2006 14:39, Filippo Giunchedi a écrit : > this has been reported before, try loading i2c-powermac before > snd-powermac, i.e. add i2c-powermac to /etc/modules and before > snd-powermac Done that, heard sound, thank you ! -- feth

Re: kernel oops on snd-powermac

2006-04-23 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:21:26 +0200, Feth AREZKI wrote: > Of course I don't get sound after that. > > Anyone experiencing trouble with this kernel version ? this has been reported before, try loading i2c-powermac before snd-powermac, i.e. add i2c-powermac to /etc/modules and before snd-powermac

kernel oops on snd-powermac

2006-04-23 Thread Feth AREZKI
hello list ! I just installed debian sid on the powerbook G4 12" I bought two weeks ago. Sound was working quite fine with Linux version 2.6.15-1-powerpc (Debian 2.6.15-8) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mon Mar 6 12:39:17 CET 2006. Now that I updated to Linux version 2.6.16-1-powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-9) ([

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:09, William Xu wrote: > Børge Holen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sunday 23 April 2006 10:54, you wrote: > >> Børge Holen wrote: > >> > In osX we got the opportunity to turn on the "Ignore accidental > >> > input". Is there a similar option in linux. The random input

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread William Xu
Børge Holen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 23 April 2006 10:54, you wrote: >> Børge Holen wrote: >> > In osX we got the opportunity to turn on the "Ignore accidental input". >> > Is there a similar option in linux. The random input from the pad itself >> > can be pretty annoying. >> >> Yo

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 23 April 2006 10:54, you wrote: > Børge Holen wrote: > > In osX we got the opportunity to turn on the "Ignore accidental input". > > Is there a similar option in linux. The random input from the pad itself > > can be pretty annoying. > > You can use mouseemu to ignore trackpad input while

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
Børge Holen wrote: > In osX we got the opportunity to turn on the "Ignore accidental input". > Is there a similar option in linux. The random input from the pad itself can > be pretty annoying. You can use mouseemu to ignore trackpad input while typing. > I dunno if its hw or a sw bug, but somet

[solved] Re: jEdit, java, powerpc..

2006-04-23 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:16:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > None of the IBM versions seem to work for me with > java-package from the stable release. It sounds like > the unstable release may work with the 32 bit version > however. Hi, thank you for the hint. I installed the 32bits ver