How about the new MacBook

Hi all, One more thing : MacBook pro is out :-) The specification seems to be great, up to 4 time faster the the powerbook, intel dual core, isight, ... Hmm It's exiting me But, how about debian on it, only install the x86 version or need to do some little hack before ? Regards, Jaonary

mkvmlinux installation problem

Hi all, I've done an apt-get updata and apt-get upgrade last night. I use the unstable branch of debian on a powerbook 15", 1.25 Ghz. The update process gone well but during upgrage the system hang when installing the new kernel version (2.6.14-7) and mkvmlinux 18. It stay on GET mkvmlinux

Unable to localize GDM

Hi all, I noticed something strange after a fresh installation of gdm and gnome. At the fisrt time, it displays all message in french (as my computer uses french locales) as I expected. But after one reboot, gdm never wants to speak french :-( I just don't understand what's wrong. I tried to chang

Re: gdesklets uses 100 % of my cpu

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:32:28PM +0100, Domingo Fiesta Segura wrote: > > Are you (both) using the mail checker desklet? If yes remove it; I've seen > that desklet eating up all the CPU when is not properly configured. > In fact there's a problem with the mail checker desklet. I removed it and

gdesklets uses 100 % of my cpu

Hi all, I'd like to know if some of you managed to run gdesklets-daemon without any trouble in a ppc laptop with Debian/Sid. Here it works but also uses 100 % of the CPU. Then, the system get hot rapidly and becom very slow. :-( Best regards Jaonary

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:42:48PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi ! > > This is an experimental patch against 2.6.9. It concerns the ATI based > Aluminium PowerBook. The nVidia based ones aren't concerned at all, and > the iBook G4 will have to wait a bit more for me to get the video wa

Re: APM and backlight keyboard with kernel 2.6.8-1

Thanks for the tip, apm is now working on my pb :-). I'm gonna try too compile the kernel 2.6.9 with Ben's patch. Regards, Jaonary

APM and backlight keyboard with kernel 2.6.8-1

Hi all, I've juste finish to install Debian on my albook 15". I've used debian-installer and the bluit-in kernel 2.6.8-1. Now, I want to run a battery manager such as wmbattery but it says that the kernel doesn't not support APM. Then, I wanna know whether I shoud rebuild the kernel or is the

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:52:34PM -0400, Sébastien Mengin wrote: > Le lun 25 oct 04 à 23:30, Sven Luther a écrit: > > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and > > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some > > french mac user knowl

Frech keyboard with xfree

Hi all, I've just finish to install debian on my albook 15" :-) . I've used debian-installer pre-rc2 for this and the installation was successfull. The only problem is the keyboard under xfree. With the consol, it's all right. The keyboard behave just as in mac os x. But, under xfree I couldn't get

about installing debian on powerbook alu 1.25 ghz

klight keyboard? - kernel? - airport ? (I have a doubt on it) - sound Thanks in advance for replaying, -- Jaonary RABARISOA 27 rue des loges 78600 Maisons Laffitte

Re: Debian on PowerBook G4

Have you try the debian Installer. I used the beta 4 version to install debian on my powerbook, and it works well. You can get it in the debian installer web sit. I don't know the addresse but you can do "google -> debian installer". Le 10 mai 04, à 11:33, Gilly Bates a écrit : I have try 2 di

Re: Powerbook Alu getting hot rapidly with Debian

Yes I have pbbuttons and all which comes with it. I also have the apm enabled in the kernel. Is it for something? Le 5 févr. 04, à 11:53, Lucas Moulin a écrit : Le Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:48:31AM +0100, Utilisateur Debian a écrit : I noticed that when I run debian my powerbook gets hot very

Re: powerbook and debian

Hi, I see that you almost managed to run debian perfectly in you albook 15''. So, I would ask to you some tips and advice because there are several things that doesn't work yet in mine. I have the same albook 15'' as you. (1,25 ghz, backlight keyboard airport bluethoot). Untill now I've just m

I can't get the right config (keyboard, yaboot)

Hi all, My machine : powerbook 15'' alu , 1,25ghz, french azerty keyboard. I managed to install debian sarge with the debian-installer beta 2 without pain but the xserver didn't work at this time. To get xfree working I followed Luis Sanjuan sugestion : - swiching to kernel 2.

Openfirmware & yaboot

Hi all, Is it possible to configure Openfirmware so that it can boot directly debian. When booting I always have to open OF and type "boot hd:9,yaboot" otherwise my machine boot directly with mac os 10.3 Thanks _ Envie de di