Re: Wicd to access wired networks

2011-03-29 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:55:07PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote: > I have just installed today's weekly-build of > debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde on my Powermac G4 (digital audio). > Can anyone tell me how to use Wicd to automatically access my wired > network instead of searching in vain for

Re: Setup WOL (Wake On LAN) on PPC (MacMiniG4)

2010-09-17 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:54:46AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > [...] > However afert a shutdown (sudo poweroff), I can not wake the machine > up. I double-check the Mac adress twice, and I can wake up the > Intel-Based PC right next to it... I am not sure the Macs can be 'woken up' usin

Re: Font Led

2010-09-15 Thread Cédric Boutillier
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:14:38PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Cédric Boutillier [100915 18:14 +0900]: > > > > class/leds/pmu-led::front/trigger = ide-disk > That doesn't work > > You can also write 'disk' directly to the (pseudo)file > > /

Re: Font Led

2010-09-15 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:07:51AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Managing leds is done through /sys nowadays. I don't have my powerbook > at hand so I don't know the exact entries, but look > into /sys/class/leds. One directory should correspond to the front led, > and will have a trigger entr

Re: Segmentation fault at start-up

2010-06-02 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Dear Benjamin, Thank you for your message. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:48:24PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Does this segfault also appear on an already booted system, after > upgrading the package to the offending version ? This could help getting > a backtrace from gdb. Unfortunately, there is

Re: Segmentation fault at start-up

2010-05-29 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi! I reported this issue to the Debian Bug Tracker. It is Bug#583622. Best, Cédric signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Segmentation fault at start-up

2010-05-28 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi again, On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:08:07PM +0530, Sujit K M wrote: > Are you using Logical Volume. I have hit this problem when ever you > set up logical volume on Fedora with a custom kernel, I mean compiling > the kernel from scratch. I always avoid an Logical Volume in my > installations, Whic

Segmentation fault at start-up

2010-05-28 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi! I have a powerpc iBook G4 mid2005, on wich I use Debian Sid. I run the 2.6.32-5 kernel from the repository. I have a separate boot partition, and my / and home in lmv. Today I rebooted, and now after the machine starts up again, I see the following message: Loading, please wait... Segmentati

Re: How to activate KMS with a radeon video card on powerpc?

2010-03-23 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi Michel, > As I suspected, radeonfb is active. You'll have to disable that, > otherwise it prevents KMS from taking ownership of the GPU. I do not know how to deactivate radeonfb. Can you provide me with some indications to do that ? Best regards, Cédric signature.asc Description:

Re: How to activate KMS with a radeon video card on powerpc?

2010-03-22 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, I updraded the kernel to 2.6.32-4, where KMS for radeon is now the default, and removed radeon.modeset=1 from the kernel command line. I guess that now I have KMS running since dmesg| grep -e drm -e radeon gives now : --- [0.947052] radeonfb :00:10.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) [

Re: How to activate KMS with a radeon video card on powerpc?

2010-03-20 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi Michel, Thanks for your answer. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:28:52AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Yes, I've been using KMS on my PowerBook ever since I fixed it to work > on it. However, beware that the code necessary for sleep to work hasn't > been ported from radeonfb to KMS yet. Ah! That is

How to activate KMS with a radeon video card on powerpc?

2010-03-19 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone managed to activate the Kernel Modesetting on a powerpc with a radeon video card, and if yes, what are the instructions. I have an Apple iBook G4 12" mid2005, with a ATI Radeon r300 video card (ATI Technologies Inc M11 NV [FireGL Mobility T2e] (rev 80)), and I di

Re: Is this the appropriate list?

2009-12-18 Thread Cédric Boutillier
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:04:19AM -0700, Thomas Carlson wrote: > Still no sound. Any suggestions Have you checked that the sound channels are not muted? I remember having to enable manually some of them with alsamixer. Best regards, Cédric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc

Re: keyboard problems in Squeeze

2009-11-08 Thread Cédric Boutillier
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:57:42PM +0100, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > I think I'm beginning to understand the Squeeze idea of keybord > configuration. If I'm right dpkg-reconfigure console-setup should do > the trick for both text console and X. But there is still console-data > which can also be dpkg-r

Re: xorg.conf powerbook g4 kde 4.2.2

2009-05-10 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, Le dimanche 10 mai 2009 05:02:17 Amit Uttamchandani, vous avez écrit : > On Sun, 10 May 2009 02:00:56 +0200 > drz wrote: > > I also have a problem with the colours in kde. Some blue colours like the > > default K-Menu-symbol is some kind of orange :) > > I had that same issue too...not sure w

Re: Bug#521865: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc: keyboard not working at all

2009-04-01 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi! I booted yesterday on the 2.6.29 kernel packaged by Debian on my iBook G4 mid 2005. I did not experienced any problem on my computer. The keyboard and the external mouse were working perfectly. Best, Cédric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: RealPlayer audio streams

2009-01-22 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, Le Thursday 22 January 2009 17:26:17 Bin Zhang, vous avez écrit : > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Hans Ekbrand > wrote: > > Both of these, are not-the-debian-way. Why not just apt-get from > > www.debian-multimedia.org? Hans, are you even sure that these codecs are packaged on www.debian

Re: power management on iBook (mid 2005)

2008-11-27 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Thank you all for your answers. I have now a clearer understanding of the situation. I killed gnome-power-manager, and I am using powernowd and pbbuttonsd. Best regards, Cédric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

power management on iBook (mid 2005)

2008-11-24 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi List, I was wondering what was the best way to deal with the power management on my iBook. I am currently using pbbuttonsd (v. 0.8.1a) + powerprefs (0.8.0), with userspace scaling governor for cpufreq. That is what I have been using for quite some time now, but I started to use Gnome as a desk

Re: RealPlayer or equivalent for PPC?

2008-10-20 Thread Cédric Boutillier
On Monday 20 October 2008 11.27:31 José JORGE wrote: > A Monday 20 October 2008 10:09:05, Bin Zhang escreveu: > > You can play real video using mplayer if you download real codecs. > > What ones? I don't know any PPC real codecs? You can download them from: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/MPlay

Re: Amarok 1.92 crashes on powerpc.

2008-10-07 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi Michel, I finally succeeded in sending my bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501495 I got an immediate answer of the maintainer, Modestas Vainius, who explained the situation. Very efficient! Unfortunately for us, powerpc KDE users, we need to wait for either 41629

Re: Amarok 1.92 crashes on powerpc.

2008-10-05 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi Michel, > A bug is a bug, and the Debian BTS version tracking makes this kind of > thing easy. What exactly did you try, and what happened? I launched 'reportbug amarok', and I got the following disclaimer when I tried to create a new bug report: -- Please DO NOT report UPST

Re: Amarok 1.92 crashes on powerpc.

2008-10-03 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi Michel, Thank you for your answer. When running objdump -R /usr/lib/kde4/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection.so | grep R_PPC_REL24 | wc -l I got something like 54720. I tried to look for the missing -fPIC flag, but I could not find my way in the CMake labyrinth. I tried to file a bug in the

Amarok 1.92 crashes on powerpc.

2008-10-01 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi dear powerpc Debian users, I am trying to use amarok 1.92 from experimental on my ibook with Debian sid + KDE packages from experimental. When I launch amarok, I get right after the splash screen the following error: Klib could not load module: libamarok_collection-sqlcollec

Re: mac-fdisk

2007-03-30 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi ! I get the same error at every boot. I don't think it is serious. hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown Cédric

Re: Suspend to disk on iBook G4 (mid 2005)

2007-03-29 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi ! I tried again this "suspend-to-disk" thing with my mid-2005 12" iBook. Everything I tried always ended up with the same result : if I try this with the module "ohci-hcd" loaded, I get a kernel oops after resume. If I unload it before suspending, it resumes ok, but then I get an Oops when I t

Re: hibernate, suspend and s2both support

2007-03-23 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi ! I compiled successfully uswsusp on my iBook (mid 2005), and installed the built package. I got the needed s2* binaries in /usr/sbin. However, when I typed : "sudo s2both", I got the following message: suspend: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Here is the content of /etc/usw

Re: Suspend to disk on iBook G4 (mid 2005)

2007-02-17 Thread Cédric Boutillier
also appletouch, usbhid and ohci1394 to be sure) before suspending, and reloading it when resuming solved the problem I have a working suspend-to-disk, and I AM HAPPY :) Thanks ! Cedric On 2/15/07, Cédric Boutillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi ! The problem I have does not seem

Re: Suspend to disk on iBook G4 (mid 2005)

2007-02-15 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi ! The problem I have does not seem DRI-related, since it happens also when I have no X server running I tried to remove as many modules as I could, but still no success. Thanks Johannes anyway for pointing out some possible causes. I will not have much time this week, but I will try to c

Re: Suspend to disk on iBook G4 (mid 2005)

2007-02-13 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi ! On 13 Feb 2007 06:56:45 GMT, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is triggering your suspend-to-disk ? Is that powerprefs ? Yes, I do have pbbuttonsd and powerprefs installed. I tried to configure powerprefs and pbbuttonsd to trigger suspend-to-disk on button action. When I

Re: Suspend to disk on iBook G4 (mid 2005)

2007-02-12 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi Jack ! On 12 Feb 2007 19:23:00 GMT, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On my iBook (beginning 2004) it works just perfectly, and I don't use any scripts or unload any module before sleeping it. Just close the lid and forget about it. On wakeup my bcm43xx module is still alive and kick

Suspend to disk on iBook G4 (mid 2005)

2007-02-12 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi list, I would like to know what the status of suspend-to-disk in the last kernel (2.6.18-4) is. I have an iBook G4 (mid 2005) and suspend-to-ram is working well. I managed to have a working suspend-to-disk around 2.6.14 (if I remember well) thanks to the list, but then things got worse: I can

Re: acroread

2006-11-07 Thread Cédric Boutillier
On 11/7/06, Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Cédric, Hello Jörg, Presentations. What do you mean by presentations ? I already used several times kpdf to make presentations created with pdflatex/beamer package, without problems by showing a pdf file in full screen mode. However, i

Re: acroread

2006-11-06 Thread Cédric Boutillier
What can you do with acroread that would not work with kdpf for example ? On 11/6/06, Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I desperatly need a "HOWTO use acroread in linuxppc step by step for dummys". I'm going to a presentation tomorrow morining. If i can't do it in linux, i'll have

Re: sarge to etch PPC problem

2006-10-23 Thread Cédric Boutillier
prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at f100 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 On 10/23/06, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: >

sarge to etch PPC problem

2006-10-22 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi ! I get exactly the same error with my mid 2005 12" iBook, running Debian Sid.This error has been present since my first install in November 2005. I did not notice any effect on the behavior/stability of the system though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Re: Please test xkb-data 0.8-12exp2 in experimental

2006-09-29 Thread Cédric Boutillier
This mysterious key seems to act as a second escape key. Here are the results of xev for the standard Esc, and for this key, obtained from Apple's X11: Esc KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x121, root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 16733974, (-624,143), root:(249,570),

laptop-mode-tools on iBook 12" mid-2005

2006-06-16 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi all ! I am running Debian sid on my ibook, and decided to install the laptop-mode-tools package to save power. However, I noticed that with this package installed, the battery life was LOWER than without (about 30+ minutes less). Does anybody use this package with a noticeable improvement of

Re: MOL Status

2006-03-14 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, Just a quick question about mol : on my mid 2005 ibook, I can run Tiger with mol 0.9.70 debian packages and a 2.6.14 kernel, using the patchs from http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/mol/. But with a 2.6.15 kernel, I see the yellow screen with the penguin, but I do not get to the wheel c

Re: PowerBook g4 12' sleep support

2005-12-21 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Sorry ! I was so happy that my suspend-to-disk works that I have not read your message carefully enough. I think that for the 12" powerbook , there is no suspend-to-ram becasue of the Nvidia graphic chipset. However I've read that suspend-to-disk was working... Cedric 2005/12/

Fwd: PowerBook g4 12' sleep support

2005-12-21 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi ! I have an 12" iBook (1.33 Ghz) running sid. Suspend-to-ram is working fine with my "home-made" kernel 2.6.14 (my .config is in a yesterday message) and yesterday, I managed to make suspend-to-disk working (the one included in the kernel). Cedric 2005/12/21, Federico Pistono <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: swsusp2, kernel 2.6.14 and iBook (mid-2005)

2005-12-20 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Thanks guys ! my swsusp is now working. I modified /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf as indicated to make use of swsusp (the default config for hiberate is done for swsusp2...don't forget to comment the "xhacks" section at the end...). It works great, except, that after a resume, the windows of Xorg/

Re: swsusp2, kernel 2.6.14 and iBook (mid-2005)

2005-12-20 Thread Cédric Boutillier
oVoBW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20 > Cédric Boutillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I am trying to make software suspend-to-disk 2 working on my iBook, > > but without success. What I've done up to now is > &

swsusp2, kernel 2.6.14 and iBook (mid-2005)

2005-12-20 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi list, I am trying to make software suspend-to-disk 2 working on my iBook, but without success. What I've done up to now is * downloaded and extracted suspend2-2.2-rc14-for-2.6.14.tar.bz2 from http://www.suspend2.net/ * patched successfully linux-source-2.6.14.4, using suspend2-2.2-rc14-for-2.

What to buy for linux : iBook G4 12" or PowerBook G4 12" ?

2005-10-18 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Hi, I need a light and small notebook with a high battery life. I run already Debian on my PC desktop. I am very interested in trying powerpc achitecture, and I am hesitating between an iBook 12" and a PowerBook 12". Could you tell me please which of these two models is best supported by Linux