Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...]

2006-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:18:28AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: On 5/12/06, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was an easy way not to problong the discussion. Restore the svn commit acces, which you could have done all those weeks ago if you had not been too proud and afraid to

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-17 Thread Jason Self
On 5/15/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you do in X xset +dpms force off ? If that works, then that's it. The display is turns off properly. Woo Hoo! Thank you.

Re: [D-I] Preparing for update in stable

2006-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
This is a follow-up to [1] which proposed a plan for the update of D-I using the latest kernel update for stable in preparation for Sarge r3. Follow-ups please in principle _only_ to d-release and d-boot and maybe to one of the CCed lists if relevant for them. On Friday 21 April 2006 02:01,

Re: HOWTO: m3mirror recent 2.6 kernels

2006-05-17 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi List, Julien, Thanks for the suggestion how to do it. I'd like to ask 2 questions in advance before i recompile my kernel here: Julien BLACHE wrote: Hi, For those of you still relying on m3mirror for slideshows, here's how to make it work with a modern 2.6 kernel. Edit

Re: HOWTO: m3mirror recent 2.6 kernels

2006-05-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
Peter Plessas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Edit arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c, then, in prom_check_displays() isn't it: prom_num_displays() in: /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/syslib/prom_init.c? No, arch/ppc is deprecated for most modern, non-embedded PPC machines (and for some/most of

Re: 2.6.17-rc3: cpufreq-set -g ondemand does not work

2006-05-17 Thread Michael Schmitz
speeds? The code path on the 7447A models appears to have a settle delay of 1 ms after the feature call (which boils down to an OUTB, basically), another 0.1 ms after the low_choose_7447a_dfs call which shouldn't take very long either. Am I missing something, Ben? I'm being over

Re: 2.6.17-rc3: cpufreq-set -g ondemand does not work

2006-05-17 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Ben, Michael, On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:15:42AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:54 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: JoseJX write there that ondemand and conservative cannot be used on 7xx/74xx processors because of the time required to switch speeds. The

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-05-17 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
Johannes Berg wrote: If you want to, feel free, it isn't really bothering me enough right now to fix it. Ok, after some hours of reading the kernel source, here my patch. I'm not familiar with kernel programming, so this is only a small hack and I'm happy that I got it working at all ;-) It

Re: 2.6.17-rc3: cpufreq-set -g ondemand does not work

2006-05-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:45 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: speeds? The code path on the 7447A models appears to have a settle delay of 1 ms after the feature call (which boils down to an OUTB, basically), another 0.1 ms after the low_choose_7447a_dfs call which shouldn't take very long

snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Johannes Berg
Hey, Currently snd-aoa is known to work on the following machines: * PowerBook5,8 * PowerBook5,7 * PowerMac8,1 * PowerMac8,2 * 17 October 2005 PowerBook (don't know the number) * PowerMac11,2 * PowerBook6,8 and my * PowerBook5,6 People with those machines are encouraged to use and stress-test

Re: 2.6.17-rc3: cpufreq-set -g ondemand does not work

2006-05-17 Thread Paul Collins
Bernhard Reiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but my idea would be that an ondemand govenor would just work on a load average with some delay to even out spikes. The userspace governor combined with powernowd will give you this. And since the userspace governor defaults to the lowest CPU

Re: One-Button iMac mouse

2006-05-17 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
I made the patch work now on one of my G4 iBooks and attached my patch for the patch. It can be applied after the mac_click_0.2-2.6.16.diff patch. However I don't understand completely how it works and why it worked alright on the G3 iBook. So somebody who helps me making a clean patch out of

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Tony Vroon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Berg wrote: Hey, Currently snd-aoa is known to work on the following machines: * PowerBook5,8 * PowerBook5,7 * PowerMac8,1 * PowerMac8,2 * 17 October 2005 PowerBook (don't know the number) That would be the PowerBook 5,9 (confirmed

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Andreas Schwab
Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, Currently snd-aoa is known to work on the following machines: * PowerBook5,8 * PowerBook5,7 * PowerMac8,1 * PowerMac8,2 * 17 October 2005 PowerBook (don't know the number) * PowerMac11,2 * PowerBook6,8 and my * PowerBook5,6 For

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Johannes Thanks for the update .. :) I loaded the new drivers, and they work, as it seems. In the end it will probably need a bit more use of this driver before i can give a reliable test report ... :) Below a few first notes .. On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:09:24PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

sgb powerpc binary package?

2006-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Faber
Dear all, I noticed that the package sgb (Stanford GraphBase by Don Knuth) is available in binary only for i386. I'm not sure about the reason for that; it has been moved to non-free with the latest version (apparently Knuth doesn't allow it to be modified) quite some time ago, could this be

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Børge Holen
* PowerBook5,7 works. have not tested the optical output, but it lights. Recover more or less perfect from sleep, I could wish for a automatic mute or similar? before machine goes to sleep. This would prevent the crack sound in the speakers when going to sleep. Note that the big missing

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:54:12PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: # lsmod | grep -i snd [again slightly edited] snd_aoa_codec_onyx 12736 2 snd_aoa_fabric_layout 7716 2 snd_aoa 8076 2 snd_aoa_codec_onyx,snd_aoa_fabric_layout snd_pcm_oss45824 0

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
perhaps a comprehensive sound test would be in order, akin perhaps to the one the winehq chaps are doing right now Dean Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Johannes Thanks for the update .. :) I loaded the new drivers, and they work, as it seems. In the end it will probably need a bit more use of

Re: sgb powerpc binary package?

2006-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:02:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Faber a écrit : Dear all, I noticed that the package sgb (Stanford GraphBase by Don Knuth) is available in binary only for i386. I'm not sure about the reason for that; it has been moved to non-free with the latest version (apparently

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:30:23AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: perhaps a comprehensive sound test would be in order, akin perhaps to the one the winehq chaps are doing right now Not being sure if I got that one ... :) Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM:

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
they are running about a 30 min test with a variety of audio and so forth so test for distortion. they are hoping people will use oss and alsa, as well as oss emulation and report back on what worked and what didnt etc Dean Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:30:23AM +1000,

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, just a me too mail: Le Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:02:01AM +0200, Børge Holen a écrit : I can also remember half way throught a ogg/mp3 playlist when it also scrambled the output, this has only happened ONCE. I experience the same on my 8,1 powermac, but more systematically. It takes

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:54:12PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: 4: I can hear two sound files at the same time: Didn't work at the first try. I then installed again /etc/asound.conf, that I copied from my old ti-IV-Book (Not being sure tho' whether this really is such a good idea

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
/var/log/boot.2.gz:Wed May 17 16:14:04 2006: ^[[9;0]^[[14;0]Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'alsactl: set_control:894: warning: name mismatch (Line-out Switch/Headphone Switch) for control #2 /var/log/boot.2.gz:Wed May 17 16:14:05 2006: alsactl:

Re: HOWTO: m3mirror recent 2.6 kernels

2006-05-17 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi Julien, List, thanks for the quick and useful reply. Figures that i should try with a recent 2.6.16, and yes, i have the arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c file. Now since i am not so much a programmer, i am unsure where exactly to add the break; statement: So i go to the declaration of

Re: sgb powerpc binary package?

2006-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Faber
Dear Charles, On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:25:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: As the non-free section is not autobuilt, the package for powerpc would have to be compiled on a internal debian machine (for security purposes), and to be uploaded. The maintainer of the package is of course the

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 00:02 +0200, Børge Holen wrote: * PowerBook5,7 works. have not tested the optical output, but it lights. Recover more or less perfect from sleep, I could wish for a automatic mute or similar? before machine goes to sleep. This would prevent the crack sound in the

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-17 Thread Jason Self
On 5/16/06, Jason Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/15/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you do in X xset +dpms force off ? If that works, then that's it. The display is turns off properly. Woo Hoo! Thank you. Well, maybe not entirely properly... I've