Hello,
since yesterday I am proud owner of a shiny new Apple powerbook G4.
My attempts to run Debian on it are summarised at
http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/
My question for now is: is there a simple way to get the keyboard working
correctly
under X11? I have a British keyboard and thus I
Hello,
the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is
the following: "xterm" does not work! It opens a window but then dies
immediately with the following error message.
xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/1
Does anybody else see this problem? Is there
Hello Vincent,
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:43:35AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> On 2005-03-03 20:13:09 +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is
> > the following: "xterm" does not work! It opens a window b
Hello Moritz,
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:00:06PM +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote:
> On 19:35 Mon 07 Mar , Matthias Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when i am booting the 2.6.11 kernel, i am missing the
> > /sys/devices/temperature
> > entry. Does anybody know, whether the feature is missing in 2
Hello,
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:09PM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is
> the following: "xterm" does not work! It opens a window but then dies
> immediately with the following error message.
>
>
Hello Colin,
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:27:35PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On 08 Mar 2005 at 11h03, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > Am I in danger of destroying my hardware in this situation?
>
> Not really, there's a hardware cut-off threshold anyway, but it's quite
> high
Hello Sven,
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc
> kernel to
>
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1
>
> And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded (mostly because
> kernel
Hello Gabriel,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:29:33AM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > 3) the "fn" key emits no scan code
> >
> > I tried "showkey -s" on the console. Pressing "fn&quo
Hello Jonathan,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:54:44AM +0100, Chocron J. wrote:
> ... So far, after about 3 weeks of fiddling with the
> various machine's settings, I have kind of acertained that the following
> hardware does not work (even with 2.6.11.2) :
> - Soundcard : it is recognized, but I am
Hello again,
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> The dmesg output contains the following lines which look like error
> messages:
I mananged to overlook the one which might be most relevant:
PCI: Enabling device 0001:10:1a.0 ( -> 0002)
ohci_hcd 000
Hello Sven,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:43:47AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > 1) the trackpad does not work :-(
> >
> > Using the trackpad has no visible effect, no input arrives at
> > /dev/input/mice,
Hello Sven,
I tried you new 2.6.11-0.2 kernel packages. Summary of the problems:
no trackpad, no sound, no fn-key. Details about my configuration
(dmesg output etc.) can be found at
http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/2.6.11-0.2/
In addition to the "real" problems below I noticed a small pack
Hello,
I have one of these very new Apple powerbooks. One of the problems I
encountered is, that sound is not working under Linux.
Since Sven suggested in a recent email that this might be a
configuration problem on my side I want to make sure: did anybody
manage to get sound working on a post-F
Hello Tamas,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:48:42AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> Thanks, but maybe I was not clear enough. I know nothing about packet
> filtering. If I use iptables, I am likely to set it up with a lot of
> holes in it, even after reading the tutorials. I was looking for
> something
Hi Ben,
I seem to be suffering from this issue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 1666MHz
revision: 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips: 829.44
machine : PowerBook5
Hello Ben,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:01:04AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > The last displayed messages are
> >
> > openpic: external
> > openpic: spurious
> > openpic: exit
> >
Hello Jonathan,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:52:36PM +0100, Chocron J. wrote:
> Nope, however, the card seems to be detected correctly, and the
> /dev/ entries get created, my guess is this is an API thing, I think
> we can't unmute it...
yes, I suspect something similar. If I try to play a sound i
Hello Martin,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:44:55PM +, Martin Habets wrote:
> If you have MAC OS installed, maybe you can unmute it there?
> (and hopefully preserve that over a reboot...)
Yes, I tried this, but it didn't work.
I only hear the annoying boot-up sound, but sound does
still not work
Hello Wee-Jin,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:32:08PM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote:
> Have you tried taking a look at alsamixer? With my Powerbook 12", I had
> to use alsamixer to unmute some things (can't remember off the top of my
> head) ...
Yes, I tried alsamixer, but unmuting everything and turning u
Hello Mike,
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:45:37AM -0800, Michael wrote:
> This may be a dumb question, but is it possible currently to build and
> install glibc and binutils and such on debian?
Sure, every Debian system comes with them pre-installed.
> My passion is towards emulation, and was total
Hello Linjay,
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:30:33AM -, linay long wrote:
> Could you please provide link to the source code for user level
> calls like socket,bind ... which calls kernel functions sys_socket
> and sys_bind etc.
The good thing about free software is, that it comes with the source,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:19 +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:56:38PM +0100, Lo???c Le Guyader wrote:
> > > Le 18 March 2005, Wolfram Quester, ? bout, prit son clavier pour
> > > taper sur son ?cran:
>
Hello Michael,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:50:02AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Why would you assign the return value of a function that returns an int
> to a char, be it signed or unsigned?
Why do you think I would?
I guess the program's author probably did this because the return
value is a cha
Hi Ben,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:42PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> + /* Look for voltage GPIO */
> volt_gpio_np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "cpu-vcore-select");
> + reg = (u32 *)get_property(volt_gpio_np, "reg", NULL);
> + voltage_gpio = *reg;
> if (!volt_gp
Hello Ben,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:45:12AM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Can I do something else to help tracking this down?
I am currently in the process of figuring out how your patch crashes
my machine. Since I know of no better strategy I am applying the
patch piecemeal and boot with e
Hello again, Ben!
you suggested the following change:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:42PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> - /* Check for 7447A based iBook G4 or PowerBook */
> - if (machine_is_compatible("PowerBook6,5") ||
> - machine_is_compatible("PowerBook6,4") ||
> -
Hello again,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:22:30PM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> The part I disabled is really simple, now. The commands are
> for switching to high speed:
>
> pmac_call_feature(PMAC_FTR_WRITE_GPIO, NULL, voltage_gpio, 0x05);
> msleep(1);
> low_
Hello,
as indicated by my previous postings I am trying to find out why
Ben's cpuspeed patch [1] crashes my powerbook. An updated description about
my machine can be found at [2].
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/03/msg00554.html
[2] http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/
The pro
Hello Joerg,
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:29:28PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> >
> >> From other people's posts I conclude that bogomips should approxi
Hello John,
thank you for your answer.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:45:53PM +1030, John Steele Scott wrote:
> There is not really any proper documentation about this stuff, but
> the source code for Darwin is available on the Apple developer web
> site, so you can see exactly what they do. The pac
Hello,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:18:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, it still is a kernel/X/whatever bug, not a hardware one, right ?
Just for the record: i see this to, maybe once every 25 times I boot
Linux. And never under MacOS X.
It happens early during boot: the yaboot prompt is st
Hello Sven,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:47:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Ok, i am uploading 2.6.11-1 today or tomorrow, once it hits the archive, it
> would be nice to have all of those issues filled correctly as a bug report
> against kernel-source-2.6.11 with a [powerpc] tag in the subject.
Ok
Hello Michael,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:11:29PM -0800, Michael wrote:
> I did change my /var/apt/sources.list file, or /etc, I forget whether it
> was in /etc or /var, ...
It is in /etc. All the configuration files you ever want to edit
should be in /etc.
> .., and being the fan of wiping and
Hi John,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:50:31AM +1030, John Steele Scott wrote:
> It doesn't show up in Linux, but if you boot into OpenFirmware you might find
> it. In OpenFirmware, try "dev /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to change to
> the CPU node,
> and then "words" to show you what commands ar
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:13:15PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:19 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > Regarding overall pmac ALSA support, is there a table that shows what
> > > works and what is broken for
Hello Bejamin,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 04:08:21PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Another entry could be:
> >
> > awacs PowerBook G4no no
> > (post Feb 2005)
>
> No, this is definitely not an awacs chipset. It's some form of i2s based
> chi
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:40:27PM +0930, John Steele Scott wrote:
> cpufreq drivers for ppc only support two speeds at the moment. So if you ask
> for 200MHz, it will still give you 750MHz.
I think that this is a hardware property of the CPU and not a property
of the driver (at least for the
Hi Ben,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:28:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hrm... Indeed, the code looks bogus. Try replacing:
>
> reg = (u32 *)get_property(volt_gpio_np, "reg", NULL);
> voltage_gpio = *reg;
>
> With
>
> if (volt_gpio_np)
> voltage_gpio =
Hi Ben,
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:45:20AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Have you actually tried the patch ? The previous was just using "reg"
> property for the gpio offset, which is wrong, it should add 0x50 to it,
> which is what read_gpio() does...
Sorry, I probably suffered from hall
Hello Johannes,
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:30:12AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Jochen: You might want to add to your page that so far we don't know how
> the acceleration sensor can be queried, it is reportedly I2C but I know
> nothing else.
Yes, now the the machine runs at full speed I may add
Hello Matthew,
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:25:46AM +, Matthew Denner wrote:
> I don't know whether anyone would find this useful but I took Johannes
> patch and have started to provide the 'fn' key within the hid code so
> that it acts as a modifier, rather than maps to right control.
I see tha
Hello Marco,
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:25:14PM +0200, Marco Vignati wrote:
> does anyone knows if there is a way to configure yaboot
> to boot mac os x verbosely?
> (wath is in mac os x is done with the command
> /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="-v").
I did not try this, but the nvsetenv utility from t
Hi,
sorry about the delay. The following is for an March 2005 Powerbook5,6 with
15 inch screen.
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:31:14AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> If you have a newer machine, that is a machine released on or after
> 2002, can you please send me the output of:
>
> echo `c
Hi Sven,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:47:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Ok, i am uploading 2.6.11-1 today or tomorrow, once it hits the archive, it
> would be nice to have all of those issues filled correctly as a bug report
> against kernel-source-2.6.11 with a [powerpc] tag in the subject.
here
Hi Johannes,
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:20:33PM +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote:
> Btw, my numlock button works perfectly with Jochen Voss' XKB keymap.
I am happy to hear this ;-)
All the best,
Jochen
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Hi Johannes,
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:29:03PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I've been thinking about the fn key a bit more -- I mapped it to
> control_r which is just a hack and I wanted to change that.
Yes, this feels like a hack.
> So I decided to map it to KEY_FN instead, which almost works.
Hello Johannes,
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 12:31 +0100, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > > So I decided to map it to KEY_FN instead, which almost works. I have a
> > > patch for pbbuttonsd to accept fn as ano
Hello,
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:43:08PM +0200, marco wrote:
> Kernel includes, maybe.
> include/linux/input.h:
> #define KEY_FN 0x1d0
>
> There is also a drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c:
> #define ADB_KEY_FN 0x3f
>
> this is the only context I recall for the KEY_FN definiti
Hello Johannes,
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:32:53PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Heh, possibly. What about X then? I don't get any x event when I push
> that button.
No idea about X. I noticed that keycodes in X are different from the
one on the console, so there must be some magic going on. Bu
Hi Wolf,
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:18:03PM +0200, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
> "." meant more output, as a
> mount /dev/sda1 -t hfsplus /hfs >& /tmp/hfsmountoutput
> didnt make a reasonable file (how do I do that
> correctly?), I had to copy all from the screen
> and left out the less important l
Hello,
there is a bug report for superformat from the fdutils
package, which is specific to the powerpc port. As I do
not have access to powerpc hardware I need some help
here. It would be nice, if someone with access to floppy
hardware on a powerpc machine could help me out.
The original bug r
Hello Tom,
thank you for your answer.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:08:13AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> # getfdprm
> DS HD sect=18
> # setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 7
> Usage: setfdprm [-c] [-p] [-y] [-n] drive [geometry]
> Type setfdprm --help to get a more complete help
> # floppycontrol -P
> disk_writabl
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