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

2010-09-17 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 17 Sep, this message from Mathieu Malaterre echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Cédric Boutillier > wrote: >> I am not sure the Macs can be 'woken up' using WOL if they were >> switched off (even from Mac OS). At least, this is my experience with >> iBooks and iM

Re: Font Led

2010-09-14 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello, On 14 Sep, this message from Elimar Riesebieter echoed through cyberspace: > does one know ho wto get the front led triggering on pata HD > aktivity? This is on my PB G4 last generation. On mine with a kernel 2.6.15, it's a kernel config option under Device Drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/M

Re: yaboot failure B&W G3 Lenny

2010-05-31 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi there, On 31 May, this message from Chris Reich echoed through cyberspace: > I've seen this before. The filesystem installed on the /boot partition > must be ext2 or ext3. You're mixing things up. If you use a /boot partition mounted to /boot under Linux, you might want to use ext2 or ext3.

Re: NFS mounts: access rights problem

2009-02-27 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Aníbal On 27 Feb, this message from Aníbal Monsalve Salazar echoed through cyberspace: > What versions are you using on the server and client? Server: 1:1.0.10-6+etch.1 Client: 1:1.1.4-1 (upgraded from 1:1.1.2-6lenny1 on 20090220) > Can you reproduce the bug with version 1:1.1.4-1 of nfs-co

Re: NFS mounts: access rights problem

2009-02-26 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello Gaudenz, On 26 Feb, this message from Gaudenz Steinlin echoed through cyberspace: >> I'm banging my head against a NFS problem. Since recently, probably >> the last big Testing update on the NFS client, there is a problem >> with access rights to files on the NFS server. [snip] > You prob

NFS mounts: access rights problem

2009-02-25 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, This is probably not really on topic here, so please excuse me... I'm banging my head against a NFS problem. Since recently, probably the last big Testing update on the NFS client, there is a problem with access rights to files on the NFS server. The client is only allowed to access accordin

Re: software CPU throttling on powerpc

2009-01-23 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello Hans, On 23 Jan, this message from Hans Ekbrand echoed through cyberspace: > I have an imac G3, which I want to use for a computing intensive task. > I think this computer has a problem with overheating, because when it > has been working for approximately 10 hours, it hangs. > > What I wo

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

2008-10-03 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 3 Oct, this message from Benjamin Cama echoed through cyberspace: > But what worries me most is the Load_Cycle_Count value : 2898441 is > far too high for a disk, but may look real, as your disk as been > spinning for quite some time (1+ hours). This roughly corresponds > to a loa

Re: Mac Mini: problem displaying on 1600x1200 LCD

2007-09-23 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Alex, On 22 Sep, this message from Alex Deucher echoed through cyberspace: > On 9/22/07, Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Once we sort this out, I'll add a MacModel option for the mini. > > fixed in ati git master: > Option "MacModel" "mini" > > the following option should also

Re: Mac Mini: problem displaying on 1600x1200 LCD

2007-09-21 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello Michel, On 21 Sep, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:21 +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: >> >> After much trying and testing, what finally made it work is >> specifying >> >> Option "UseF

Mac Mini: problem displaying on 1600x1200 LCD

2007-09-19 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On the Mini at work (Radeon 9200 / RV280), I have had a hard time making X.org display correctly on a Dell 2001FP LCD at 1600x1200 (native). Framebuffer console has always worked without a hitch. X worked via VGA, and I am quite sure it also worked a few moths ago via DVI. Since then the

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-27 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 24 May, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:16:24AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> On Thu, May 24 2007, at 00:27 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> > I have lots of problems connecting hardware to an AluBook 5.8. For >> > both U

Re: xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable

2006-10-04 Thread Mich Lanners
Salut Denis, On 3 Oct, this message from Denis Barbier echoed through cyberspace: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:37:15PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ setxkbmap -rules "xorg" -model macintosh -layout ch >> -variant fr -print xkb_keymap { >>

Re: xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable

2006-10-03 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Denis, Sorry to come in late on this... On 23 Sep, this message from Denis Barbier echoed through cyberspace: > Hi, > > I just uploaded xkb-data 0.8-13 into unstable, it > is available at http://people.debian.org/~barbier/tmp/ > and will reach mirrors in almost a day. I installed 0.8-16 tod

Re: CPU frequency scaling on G4 systems

2006-09-30 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 30 Sep, this message from Roger Leigh echoed through cyberspace: > Thanks for all the helpful replies, everyone. > > In addition to CPU frequency scaling, which packages are recommended > for power management in general? There are quite a few, but some are > only for laptops. Well, they

Re: Euro sign [was: Re: xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable]

2006-09-30 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello, On 29 Sep, this message from Helge Kreutzmann echoed through cyberspace: > Hello Wolfgang, > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:09:04PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> On X (that is KDE/KDM), according to the KDE control-center, >> >> General:Arial 9 (numbers here and following m

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

2006-09-28 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, Short-circuiting all the later discussion On 19 Sep, this message from Jörg Sommer echoed through cyberspace: > Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:11:20PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: >>> Why is Fn+6 num_lock? >> >> No idea, please run >> xkbcomp :0 >>

Re: CPU frequency scaling on G4 systems

2006-09-25 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 25 Sep, this message from Roger Leigh echoed through cyberspace: > However, loading any or all of these modules does not enable frequency > scaling. You don't get anything under, e.g. > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/ > > or under /proc. > > What else is needed to get CPU frequency s

Re: Please test Macintosh keyboards with xkb-data 0.8-12exp1

2006-09-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi folks, I remember discussing keyboard issues a long time ago... On 13 Sep, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:06 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: >> > > Now there is one question left: what is the standard model? >> > > In the terminoology of xk

Re: Re: automatic power-up

2006-04-24 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello, On 24 Apr, this message from Lawrence Walsh echoed through cyberspace: > You will definitely get better answers if you ask a question :-) Michel - Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23

Re: How can I get rid of the starting bong! (G4-mac mini)?

2006-03-30 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Michael, On 30 Mar, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> > nvsetvol 0 >> >> While this seems to work indeed, there is more to it, I beleive. >> >> Under OS X there are a few apps that can independantly of sound >> volume, change the volume of the startup sound. I hav

Re: How can I get rid of the starting bong! (G4-mac mini)?

2006-03-30 Thread Mich Lanners
On 30 Mar, this message from Eddy Petrişor echoed through cyberspace: > On 3/30/06, Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 22:17 +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: >> > Under OS X there are a few apps that can independantly of sound >> >

Re: How can I get rid of the starting bong! (G4-mac mini)?

2006-03-29 Thread Mich Lanners
On 29 Mar, this message from Johannes Berg echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:39 +0200, Pancho Horrillo wrote: > >> Mi G4 mac mini, following apple tradition, starts with a noisy "bong!". >> This is a real nuissance for me; I've talked to him, but to no avail... > > nvsetvol 0

Re: Power saving techniques

2006-03-20 Thread Mich Lanners
On 20 Mar, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: >> >> When it goes down, you can try to recalibrate your battery: let the >> computer run until the battery shuts it down, with no pmud or >> pbbuttonsd running to keep you from doing that. > > What should happen to the bat

Re: Power saving techniques

2006-03-19 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 18 Mar, this message from T. M. echoed through cyberspace: > 1) Does my PowerBook support cpu scaling? How do I enable it? Can I > even make it run at 500Mhz or so? It most probably does. As was already said, your kernel needs to support cpufreq scaling. I recommend userspace governor t

mouseemu on powerbook5,8

2006-03-05 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, You may recall I experienced problems with mouseemu on my Oct. 2005 AlBook. On initial boot, mouseemu eats all CPU and refuses to work. Well, I looked a bit into the problem and found the cause. But let's start with the problem: Problem: On intial boot, reliably, mouseemu eats

Re: mouseemu conflicts with ikeyd

2006-02-18 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello, On 18 Feb, this message from Kirill Kuvaldin echoed through cyberspace: > Recently I've installed ikeyd and mouseemu debian packages. > It seems they conflict between themselves, so mouseemu overrides ikeyd > settings, i.e. ikeyd is absolutely blocked, pressing F12 doesn't lead > to cdrom

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 12 Feb, this message from Andrzej Mendel echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 18:05 +0100, Daniel Payno wrote: >> I plan to install linux but: >> * Ubuntu/PPC 5.10's Live/Install kernels don't support my Superdrive > Impossible, both Ubuntu 5.10 and Debian Sarge supports

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-11 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 9 Feb, this message from Daniel Payno echoed through cyberspace: > This is my first e-mail all because a few days ago bought myself a > brand new iPowerBook 15" (Alubook so it seems :) with MACOsX Congrats :-) > It bundles a new dl superdrive: > > MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846: [snip] > >

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-02-01 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello Michael, On 26 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> Things to check: >> >> - whether Debian's mouseemu indeed has bad define for KEY_UNKOWN >> (from old kernel), > > You bet it has. After all, the new fn keys were added to input.h only > recently, no? Hmm

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-25 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello Matthias, On 23 Jan, this message from Matthias Grimm echoed through cyberspace: >> That doesn't seem to work. Input devices with mouseemu stopped: >> [...] >> pbbuttonsd opens event0 and event2 only. X has event3 and mice open. > > Where have you this information from? /proc ? >From lso

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello Matthias, [writing this mail a second time, powerbook went to sleep and crashed on wake while replying. Arghhh...] On 22 Jan, this message from Matthias Grimm echoed through cyberspace: > There are a couple of applications fiddle around with /dev/input/event > so I try to bring some light

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 22 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: > Well, the 'mouseemu eats the CPU' bug has been popping up on occasion, > I thought we had fixed that by now. Doesn't seem to be the case... >> Well, no luck, it's not that easy. Neither the fact that mouseemu is >

Re: pbbuttonsd: mouse not activity?

2006-01-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 21 Jan, this message from To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org echoed through cyberspace: > However, it would seem that mouse movements are not counted as > activity? Is that so by design, concious decision, or is it a bug? As explained by Matthias Grimm in another mail, it would appea

Re: Powerbook5,8: function keys not working

2006-01-21 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Michael, On 20 Jan, this message from Michael Hanselmann echoed through cyberspace: > Please try 2.6.16-rc1. It has the latest patch. Doesn't boot: stops after displaying HID0 values (still in early boot text console). I have to check if that's a known issue. Anyway, I have the latest patch

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-21 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 20 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> So I'm back to statuc device files, and I previously had event0 .. >> event3. I have created the other ones til 31, and indeed pbbuttonsd >> opens them all. But event4 ... event31 all report ENODEV. > > Just wonde

pbbuttonsd: mouse not activity?

2006-01-21 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, For I don't know what reason (more on that in another thread) pbbuttonsd started detecting keyboard activity. So far so good. However, it would seem that mouse movements are not counted as activity? Is that so by design, concious decision, or is it a bug? Thanks, and cheers Michel

Re: Powerbook5,8: function keys not working

2006-01-19 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Michael, On 20 Jan, this message from Michael Hanselmann echoed through cyberspace: > Okay, so you don't have a keyboard the patch/driver doesn't know about. No, I also verified the USB ids vs. your patch. >> In default config, Fn+Fx (eg. Fn+F1) do produce different keycodes. >> But it seems

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-19 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Sven, On 20 Jan, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:11:37AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> > However, I have another problem: it seems that pbbuttonsd can't >> > detect activity. >> > [snip] >> > >> > Can anyone confirm this behavio

Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-19 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Ben, On 20 Jan, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:09 +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: >> However, I have another problem: it seems that pbbuttonsd can't >> detect activity. >> >> While typing, a short whil

Powerbook5,8: function keys not working

2006-01-19 Thread Mich Lanners
Hello all, On my Powerbook5,8 (post-October Aluminum), I have a problem with the special keys overloaded on the F keys. I have Michael's patch (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=3856) applied to the kernel, but none of the keys seems to produce any special action. pbbuttonsd listens f

pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8

2006-01-19 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, For those who didn't notice, pbbuttonsd just got support for the backlit keyboard of the new Powerbooks (post-October 2005). For me it works fine :-) However, I have another problem: it seems that pbbuttonsd can't detect activity. While typing, a short while after resuming from sleep, t

Re: Keyboard-Layout

2006-01-15 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 13 Jan, this message from Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni echoed through cyberspace: > my iBook was in repair and they exchanged the mainboard. Now the keys > for ^/° and are switched. On OS X they keys works normal. Any idea > how to fix this? This looks like a "ISO keyboard, swapping keys" is

Re: Install mini-iso and kernel available for new AlBook

2006-01-15 Thread Mich Lanners
Moin, On 15 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> I forgot that pbbuttonsd needs ADB compiled in to work. Not sure what >> it is useful for, since I'm pretty sure these 'Books have no trace of >> ADB nowhere. Anyway... > > I'm sure ADB doesn't serve any purpose on

Re: Install mini-iso and kernel available for new AlBook

2006-01-14 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi list, Humbly quoting my little self: On 12 Jan, this message from me, myself an I echoed through cyberspace: > I have built a custom kernel that includes the two patches needed to > support the post-October Powerbooks (namely trackpad updates and > fn-key patch, although that one is still hea

Re: Linux on new AlBook

2006-01-14 Thread Mich Lanners
On 13 Jan, this message from Rogério Brito echoed through cyberspace: > Hi, Mich. Hello :-) > On Jan 12 2006, Mich Lanners wrote: > Can you tell us how does this machine works? I refrained from ordering > one of these things (they cost quite a lot here) when I first heard > the

Re: quik 7300 Auto of scan range

2006-01-13 Thread Mich Lanners
On 13 Jan, this message from Hans Ekbrand echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:14:47PM -0200, Fábio Rabelo wrote: >> > > Well then you might not even have to resolve the display issue, >> > > just install ssh in the chroot and reboot. >> > Googling around I found this >> > :ht

Install mini-iso and kernel available for new AlBook

2006-01-12 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, Since I also received my new PowerBook (Powerbook5,8, aka post-October 15,2" Aluminum)a few days ago :-), I have been working hard to get Debian on it's disk. I have built a custom kernel that includes the two patches needed to support the post-October Powerbooks (namely trackpad updates

Re: Potato won't chroot on Etch

2005-12-10 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 8 Dec, this message from john fisher echoed through cyberspace: > PowerPC G5 dual proc > running 2.6.12-1-powerpc-smp > with Etch testing install > > trying to run a potato chroot enviro. > > I have to run as root inside the chroot ( security not at issue) > > potato's bash ( & etc) w

Re: Powermac G3 graphics card question

2005-12-01 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 30 Nov, this message from Hans Ekbrand echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:19:20AM +, Robin Edwards wrote: >> I currently have a pci rage128 installed in my mac running sid. if i >> replaced this card with a pc pci graphics card (dual head would be >> ideal). wo

Re: hfs boot floppy versions

2005-11-01 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 31 Oct, this message from Brad Boyer echoed through cyberspace: >> >I'm pretty sure my 7600 reset everything on a mac boot sequence. I >> >know it cleared out the patch for the control video mode bug. Confirmed. >> Which was a forth function you somehow stored in nvram (the control

Re: It's a known bug [Re: Strange deconnections of Cisco 350 series CardBus network card on new kernels]

2005-10-31 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi Eugen, On 30 Oct, this message from Eugen Dedu echoed through cyberspace: > Hey, after searching again on groups I found this problem is known: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5017 Not sure that bug report is really your problem... The fact that going back to an old kernel versi

Re: Interrupts lost on IDE disks in RAID1 array

2005-08-28 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 28 Aug, this message from Rogério Brito echoed through cyberspace: > On Aug 28 2005, Rick Thomas wrote: >> The best way to handle multiple hard disks is to get a good cheap IDE >> PCI card. > > Which would be a cheap IDE PCI card that can work with older PMac's > (more especifically a Pow

Re: Apache-1.3 and Virtual hosting

2005-08-28 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, This is off topic here, but we're normally forgiving about that fact On 28 Aug, this message from Mehul Sanghvi echoed through cyberspace: > I've got a problem with Apache-1.3 and virtual domains which, at least > to me, does > not seem to make sense. I've had this sort of a setup befor

Re: problems on a 7500/100 powerpc

2005-07-27 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 26 Jul, this message from Eric Cooper echoed through cyberspace: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:59:03PM -0700, Steven Gilbreath wrote: >> i am trying to get debian running on a 7500 powerpc >> but the boot floppies can't find my Quantum Fireball 1 >> gig hard drive. [snip] > If not, I vague

Re: airport base stations

2005-07-20 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 20 Jul, this message from Dean Hamstead echoed through cyberspace: > not sure how 'on topic' this is Guess it's OK. We're tolerant, anyway :-) > but im just curious how similar the insides of a aiport base station > 'graphite' and its dual ethernet brother 'snow' are? > as snow supports

Re: execute scripts when is wireless card inserted

2005-04-15 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 15 Apr, this message from Tamas K Papp echoed through cyberspace: > When my wireless card is plugged in, I would like to > > 1. ifdown eth0 > 2. ifup ath0 > 3. reconfigure firestarter (I have figured out how to do this from a > script) Probably the easiest is to hook into /etc/network/in

Re: CUDAMGR (was "Automatic power-on" or "pmacpow--would a .deb be worthwhile?")

2005-03-03 Thread Mich Lanners
Hey all, On 3 Mar, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: > Hello, an other interesting think to include in this future package > could be CUDAMGR. LOL :-) Somebody's actually using it! Cool!. No, seriously, I hacked that together a long time ago, but server mode (automa

Re: where's tfm?

2005-02-15 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 15 Feb, this message from Brad Boyer echoed through cyberspace: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:00:40AM -0600, vinai wrote: >> I just set up an 8600 at home with the sole purpose of playing around >> with multimedia stuff on it. I'm actually quite willing to spend >> some time to try to get

Re: where's tfm?

2005-02-14 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 14 Feb, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 13:46 -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0200, Felipe Fonseca wrote: >> > yes. that looks like a problem... >> > >> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:02:13 +0200, Ed

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-31 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi guys, Sorry to chime in late, but I was on holiday for two weeks, plus had my primary mail laptop crash it's disk sortly before that Anyways On 17 Jan, this message from Dylan Beaudette echoed through cyberspace: > On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: >> On Sun, 16

Re: ibook 2.2 doesn't use whole battery

2004-12-16 Thread Mich Lanners
On 16 Dec, this message from Colin Leroy echoed through cyberspace: >> Do you think it's an hardware problem (bad battery) or a >> configuration error? > > I had this too and had to replace the battery. Before doing so you can > try a few cycles - empty the battery completely (stop pmud or > pbbu

Re: keyboard confusion

2004-12-16 Thread Mich Lanners
On 16 Dec, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> > We'd need to see the adb devices: line from dmesg as well, that's >> > showing the default handler IDs IIRC. My keyboard is also detected >> > with 2 c4, and reported as ISO / swapping keys. That's 2.6.9-rc4 >> > FWIW. >

Re: keyboard confusion

2004-12-15 Thread Mich Lanners
On 14 Dec, this message from Elimar Riesebieter echoed through cyberspace: >> > Key 94 ( responsible for ^°) has changed with key 60 (<>|). >> >> Hmmm... is that the key swapping thing for ISO keyboards? Where are >> those keys located on your keyboard? > > <> between shift and y (qwertz layout)

Re: keyboard confusion

2004-12-14 Thread Mich Lanners
On 13 Dec, this message from Elimar Riesebieter echoed through cyberspace: > for some reason there are 2 keys permuted on my AlBook keyboard. > > This is for console and X11 de-qwertz-no-deadkeys: > > Key 94 ( responsible for ^°) has changed with key 60 (<>|). Hmmm... is that the key swapping t

Re: Sleep support with Cisco Aironet (was: Test patch for sleep..)

2004-10-29 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, On 29 Oct, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:44 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote: >> However, when I use a Cisco CardBus network card, the screen stays >> black during wake up, but IMO this is a problem with Cisco driver >> (airo*). I sa

Re: i

2004-10-29 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 28 Oct, this message from Jon Cortelyou echoed through cyberspace: > I got totem-xine installed onto my G3 600 Mhz "Dual-USB" iBook running > PowerPC Ubuntu Linux (Debian based distro). My video card is an ATI > Rage Mobility 128 8MB 2x AGP. [snip] > > Once installed, the DVD video/audio

Re: OF Patching on 8500

2004-10-28 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 27 Oct, this message from Gavin Sandie echoed through cyberspace: > I've got an PowerPC 8500 which quite happily runs debianppc. [snip] > My problem is that I have never been able to see the OF > screen, from what I've read I need to patch the OF and then > use nvsetenv to change the outpu

Re: WAN cards

2004-04-30 Thread Mich Lanners
On 29 Apr, this message from Ken Treis echoed through cyberspace: > Does anyone have experience using Frame Relay cards on PPC? I am > planning on using an XServe as a BGP router, and one of my peers will > be connected via frame relay. > > I presume that, if the drivers are written right, the S

Re: video4linux: planB (fixed)

2004-04-24 Thread Mich Lanners
On 22 Apr, this message from dylan echoed through cyberspace: >> This could be hasciicam trying an unsupported video format. PlanB is >> very limited, especially compared to bttv, to which most capture >> programs are geared. >> >> You can enable debugging in PlanB at compile time to get a kernel

Re: video4linux: planB

2004-04-22 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, PlanB maintainer here On 21 Apr, this message from dylan echoed through cyberspace: > i am trying to get video4linux to work on an old powermac, using the > built-in planB video digitizer... Cool! Somebody's stll using it :-) > i can get webcam to capture frames from the device, but th

Re: instalation on a tricky 7500/100 with metabox G4

2004-04-11 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 8 Apr, this message from Michael Jarosch echoed through cyberspace: > First, the good news. My 7500/100 PowerMac, accelerated with a G4-Card, > only boots with Linux. The BIOS doesn't recognize any harddisk or > cd-rom if the g4-card is plugged, just floppys. Think, it's the > OpenFirmwa

Re: keyboard maps in 4.3.0 for Europe

2004-03-11 Thread Mich Lanners
On 8 Mar, this message from Martin-Éric Racine echoed through cyberspace: >> On 5 Mar, this message from Martin-Éric Racine echoed through >> cyberspace: >> > I was wondering if xfree86 ever got around including a keyboard map >> > variant that inverts the locations of keycodes 49 and 94? This

Re: keyboard maps in 4.3.0 for Europe

2004-03-05 Thread Mich Lanners
On 5 Mar, this message from Martin-Éric Racine echoed through cyberspace: > I was wondering if xfree86 ever got around including a keyboard map > variant that inverts the locations of keycodes 49 and 94? This kuldge > is needed for several 3rd-party keyboards where these two keys are > inverted,

Re: partitioning and booting

2004-03-01 Thread Mich Lanners
On 1 Mar, this message from Albert Cahalan echoed through cyberspace: >> This is _not_ MS-DOS. There is a place in the partition map that >> contains total disk size (maybe repeated in every partition entry, >> not sure), but that's it. > > So this looks like a bad idea. I'd have to write > a to

Re: partitioning and booting

2004-03-01 Thread Mich Lanners
On 1 Mar, this message from Albert Cahalan echoed through cyberspace: > Besides mac-fdisk and dd, what works for a Mac? I believe parted also works, but I haven't used it personally. > So far, I've used dd to put raw copies of my > data onto all three disks. I'd like to have > more partitions a

Re: pmud problem: No Sleep support on this hardware, exiting!

2004-02-27 Thread Mich Lanners
On 27 Feb, this message from Gabriel Paubert echoed through cyberspace: [snip] > And now even Linus is using PPC ;-) Linus/PPC ? Although, that would be a good nick for BenH :-))) Cheers Michel - Michel Lanners

Re: Unable to install/boot debian from G3(beige) desktop

2004-01-30 Thread Mich Lanners
On 30 Jan, this message from J. MacPhail echoed through cyberspace: > Like many G3 users, I am somewhat resentfully dual booting (with > BootX). Sensible or now, the reason I did not try harder with Quik is > the apparent lack of a way to apply OF patches from within Linux. The > indicated progr

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-27 Thread Mich Lanners
On 27 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> > The point about voltage is well taken, though. We just need a way >> > to detect what kind of battery is installed to use it. >> >> That will be non-trivial. Unless we find access to the I2C bus on >> which we can talk to

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-26 Thread Mich Lanners
On 26 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: > The point about voltage is well taken, though. We just need a way to > detect what kind of battery is installed to use it. That will be non-trivial. Unless we find access to the I2C bus on which we can talk to the battery c

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-25 Thread Mich Lanners
On 23 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: > 1) battery capacity tends to decrease over time. To see how much > capacity is left, run without pmud (or similar service), remount > everything ro and wait for it to power off. Here is some anectdotical information about m

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-16 Thread Mich Lanners
On 16 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> There is no problem at all keeping the Apple partition format for >> LVM. I > > Thanks for reporting this; and please disregard my rants about LVM > shortcomings... :-) >> /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 LVM-vg

Re: compiler flags

2004-01-15 Thread Mich Lanners
On 14 Jan, this message from Chris Anderson echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:22, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> >> MySQL will soon provide precompiled packages for PowerPC as well. >> I think they will provide tgz for MySQL 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 >> >> I just

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 15 Jan, this message from Simon Vallet echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:43:26 -0200 > Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > You didn't answer my implied question: do you need to keep the >> > Apple partition format, (f.e. because you

Re: Kernel 2.4.18-powerpc using BooxX

2004-01-14 Thread Mich Lanners
On 14 Jan, this message from Rick Thomas echoed through cyberspace: > When it asked if I wanted to setup to boot from this kernel, it > warned about not being able to boot other OSes, so I assumed it > was going to do yaboot stuff, and told it "no" -- figuring I'd do > the BootX version of that ma

Re: Can I Install AND boot a new Kernel on an OldWorld PMac?

2004-01-11 Thread Mich Lanners
On 7 Jan, this message from Brad Boyer echoed through cyberspace: > [snip] A note of warning, tho. I'm not sure exactly > what does it, but on my 7600 most of the PRAM and OF settings get > changed back to what the MacOS wants during the boot process. This > means you have to reapply patches and

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.6

2003-12-27 Thread Mich Lanners
On 26 Dec, this message from Lee Braiden echoed through cyberspace: > On Friday 26 Dec 2003 9:54 pm, Mich Lanners wrote: >> PlanB in 2.6 kernels is completely foobar'ed. Don't attempt to >> compile it until further notice :-) (that is until I have time fixing >> it)

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.6

2003-12-26 Thread Mich Lanners
On 22 Dec, this message from Vincent Bernat echoed through cyberspace: > OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du lundi 22 décembre 2003, vers > 09:55, Carlos Agüero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > >> I've an error: >> CC [M] drivers/media/video/planb.o > > Do not compile this driver (remove i

Re: no way to boot my ppc 7300

2003-12-05 Thread Mich Lanners
On 5 Dec, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Frank wrote: >> >> while playing with my partitions i destoyed may table, but it?s no >> problem i?thought (got this ppc new, without important data) >> but the poroblem is there is

Re: swiss german keyboard config needed

2003-12-04 Thread Mich Lanners
On 3 Dec, this message from Gaudenz Steinlin echoed through cyberspace: >> How about the one attached below? It's for my swiss-french keyboard, >> but I suppose most of the things you're looking for are identical. > > Physically swiss french and swiss german keyboards are identical. The > keymap

Re: Video OUT in oldworld A/V powermacs, there is a way!?

2003-12-04 Thread Mich Lanners
On 30 Nov, this message from Carlos Eduardo Coelho Baptista echoed through cyberspace: > Is there a way to do Video *OUT* with a oldworld a/v powermac (like my > cool Powermac 8500 ;P) using linux!? > > i've already configured/used video in via PlanB and it works great... > the only thing missi

Re: IDE in 7300

2003-12-04 Thread Mich Lanners
On 4 Dec, this message from Marco van de Voort echoed through cyberspace: > I managed to compile a recent 2.4 kernel, but dhcp doesn't work > anymore. I think I recall you need some networking options in the kernel for DHCP to work (maybe packet socket, but I'm not sure...). Cheers Michel ---

Re: IDE in 7300

2003-12-04 Thread Mich Lanners
On 3 Dec, this message from Marco van de Voort echoed through cyberspace: >> > doesn't seem to recognize the card. That is not so strange, could >> > be driver, unsupported card etc etc. >> > >> > However I don't see it in /proc/pci either. >> >> That's bad. Even without IRQ jumpering, it shoul

Re: swiss german keyboard config needed

2003-12-03 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 2 Dec, this message from nico dreher echoed through cyberspace: > I am looking for an ALT- and CTRL- configuration on a Swiss German > qwertz keyboard (PowerBook G3 Lombard). > > I tried the sample .Xmodmap from > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/ > ms

Re: IDE in 7300

2003-11-30 Thread Mich Lanners
On 30 Nov, this message from Marco van de Voort echoed through cyberspace: > I got an old (_really_ old) PCI ide card, and tried to insert it into > my 7300, in the hope I can attach some (larger) IDE drives. > > However the 7300 running debian 3.0 with > > Linux rottenapple 2.2.20-pmac #1 Thu M

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-09 Thread Mich Lanners
On 9 Nov, this message from Martin-Éric Racine echoed through cyberspace: > There is a favorite web site that unfortunately has hardcoded their > scripting to specifically respond only to IE 5.x or Navigator 4.7x, so > I was wondering if there ever was a release of Netscape 4.7x for > Linux/PPC?

Re: 2.6.0-test7 (benh) cpufreq problem?

2003-10-30 Thread Mich Lanners
On 30 Oct, this message from Georg Koss echoed through cyberspace: >> > 3.) That plan B video stuff has to be disabled. >> >> Why do you want to use PlanB on your PowerBook? That driver is for >> old PCI macs with a video input. >> >> And yes, as you found out, it doesn't work (it doesn't even c

Re: 2.6.0-test7 (benh) cpufreq problem?

2003-10-29 Thread Mich Lanners
On 28 Oct, this message from Georg Koss echoed through cyberspace: > I own an PBG412. ^^ Hmmm... > I rsynced 2.6.0-test7 from source.mvista.com and compiled that kernel, > which worked with two minor problems. > [snip] > 3.) That plan B video stuff has to be disabled. Why do you

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Mich Lanners
On 16 Oct, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: >> Chris, since you're rebuilding quik :-), maybe you can give this a >> try as well? > > I can; I need to hook up a SCSI disk to really test it? Does the root > partition/kernel have to be on the SCSI? Well, I asked myself th

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Mich Lanners
On 14 Oct, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: >> Incidentaly, there's a bug in second/file.c, in load_file(), where a >> device path is predefined as '/dev/sdaX', 'X' being replaced later >> with partno+'0', thus limiting working partition numbers to 1-9, and >> overwriting t

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