Re: List of powerpc / pmac specific package for debian-ports

2019-01-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Adam, On 9/01/19 10:31 AM, Adam Conrad wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 08:40:10AM +1300, Michael Schmitz wrote: Regarding the old 32 bit powerpc-utils, now pmac-utils, I am no longer maintainer of that package after it was taken over by Adam Conrad (with my express consent) in 2016. Adam

Re: List of powerpc / pmac specific package for debian-ports

2019-01-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
Mathieu, Adrian, On 9/01/19 4:21 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:17 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 1/8/19 4:15 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Maybe it is time to create a debian-powerpc group on salsa.d.o. And upload the latest of pmac-utils as project over

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386]

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
It's not upto buildd admins, it's upto packages-arch-specific[1] maintainers (cc:'d). Please change the atari-fdisk p-a-s entry to match what's on the package sources: amiga-fdisk-cross: !m68k !poweprc # Everything but m68k/ppc amiga-fdisk: m68k powerpc

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-02-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
modutils? Thanks, found! There was a file + symlink without package... The 'purge' option of dpkg is your friend here (admittedly, packages superseding older packages could be smarter about this - file a bug against module-init-tools please) Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Right-Click - Middle Click Lombard Keyboard - etch

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 the mental interface of Michael Schmitz told: Truth be told, that mental interface had a brain fart... what I meant to suggest is installing mouseemu, not pbbuttonsd... [...] Install pbbuttonsd and configure the desired emulation keycodes (the keycodes others

Re: Right-Click - Middle Click Lombard Keyboard - etch

2007-12-01 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, The most annoying thing at the moment is how do I get right and middle click using the trackpad? It would be nice if I could hold down control-click for right click and alt-click for middle click. Install pbbuttonsd and configure the desired emulation keycodes (the keycodes others

Re: beige g3 etch install

2007-11-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
[ Notice to Mac users: remember to wrap long lines please ... ] error anyway, since I have selected ext3 file system that is not supported in quik. I therefore say to carry on without a boot loader. Everything goes fine all the way to rebooting into the new system. However, when I do that,

Re: No port maintainers?

2007-10-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Sjoerd Simons wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:13:28AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:04 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Please add yourself to [0] if you're actively working on powerpc issues. While I do work on powerpc issues as I encounter

Re: ide fails

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, hdc is less then a year old, had an hitachi (and replacement from hitachi) that died in that place twice. Both drives have a temperature about 38-42°C over the year. Yesterday I found that a package was brocken an elf binary wasn't in the right place. As a new kernel was on the update

Re: grub-of unresolvable dependency on powerpc-ibm-utils

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:32:25PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: I tried to install grub-of 1.95+20070828-2 but it depends on powerpc-ibm-utils 1.0.6 which does not seem to be available anywhere in debian. Is this known, is it a typo? I can file a bug report if necessary. Thanks very

Re: Sleep problems with kernels = 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-08-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, Unfortunately, it seems that kernels later than 2.6.21 have problems letting my powerpc iBook (G3 processor) going to sleep (suspend to ram). The userland that I am using is a Debian testing (lenny) and the default kernel that comes with it is 2.6.22, with some patches applied and

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Schmitz
Re: hosting voltaire: if it could be shipped to Europe, I could host it temporarily (couple of months for sure; any longer and I need to make arrangements with my former lab mates) in the same server room that hosts four m68k buildds already. I rather prefer another solution is found. Me

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
| Why not ? | |Because the sky is not violet today. What a rediculous, senseless answer! Unbelieveable bad! I never did expect things like this in a project like debian. You seriously should think about your positions. /lurk rant Oh thanks a lot, guys! Popping back into -powerpc to

Re: Bug #400919: Bug affecting Kino (and Cinelerra) on PowerPC, any ideas?

2007-01-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
IIRC kino will use the ffmpeg decoder if it is available, or used to anyway. Solution is to investigate seeing how kino can use the ffmpeg decoder. That's been done - IIRC Guido Guenther provided ffmpeg enabled binaries at http://honk.sigxcpu.org/linux-ppc/debian ... cc:ed so he

Re: Bug #400919: Bug affecting Kino (and Cinelerra) on PowerPC, any ideas?

2007-01-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:46 +0100, Herman Robak wrote: DV video playback in Kino is unusably slow on Debian Sid for PowerPC. I get only 1-2 frames per second on a Mac mini, whereas Mplayer and Vlc both give smooth playback. This is because libdv is broken for big-endian systems, and not

Re: retiring from debian until end of february ...

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: i don't know the details of the argument, though i am disappointed that the leadership has not appropriately resolved the situation. but i think it can be safely said that computer skills != leadership skills. Indeed. This is a

Re: sarge-etch on Performa 6360, new 2.6.18-3 kernel problems.

2006-12-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
Rick, what kind of ATI card does your G3 have? The 3400 should have some sort of rage64 or even older type. lspci -nn gives me: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a) So that's a rage64 covered by atyfb ... Can you tweak some driver parameters (mclk and pll

Re: sarge-etch on Performa 6360, new 2.6.18-3 kernel problems.

2006-12-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
Another test: compile a kernel with nothing but the bare minimum of drivers (no ethernet, no disk, just ramdisk and keyboard) to see if that also shows screen corruption. Michael I also see this when I boot with video=atyfb but it goes away if I boot with video=ofonly. This is

Re: sarge-etch on Performa 6360, new 2.6.18-3 kernel problems.

2006-12-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
You can see some of the characters are corrupted - there are three columns of this corruption down the screen, flickering like there's some data flowing through the pixels in those characters, even when it sits there waiting for the root file system. Sounds like the kernel is using

Re: ports, big and small, two questions

2006-12-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
1) has anyone ran or heard of running debian on the *original* g3 powerbook, aka 3500/kanga ? (any version, say at least 2.2 kernel/potato or later) The 3400 used to work well. Oldworld, so you'll need MacOS and BootX. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: my little porting issue 3400 to 3500 powerbooks...

2006-12-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
i am not sure what else to try: a) install fresh and set up for quick or/and for static network to link in from another machine (is ssh in default install ??) or can i serial line in ?? IIRC the 3400 had a serial line so you should be able to direct kernel debug messages out there. Or,

Re: LMU and i2c device on powerbooks

2006-12-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian stuff) + On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Hi, I would like

Re: More Powerbook Questions.

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
Maybe the nvidia card isn't able to be put to sleep. In any case you may want to try pbbuttonsd (or lighter, pmud). Both of these require functional kernel sleep support - the kernel will tell you if it cannot sleep. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: sarge-etch on Performa 6360, new 2.6.18-3 kernel problems.

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Booting with BootX into the 2.6.18-3 kernel that the etch upgrade installed gives a slightly corrupted display that initially does what it should, but when it gets to working on the root filesystem, just sits there waiting. The screen looks like this at the point it fails:

Re: Kernel Panic... Can't find console

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schmitz
dmesg -- http://deserved.servegame.org/serial.txt Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. It seems to be as simple as to create that file: mknod /dev/console c 5 1 I strongly doubt that: pivot_root: No such file or directory /Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! s

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
I see. Is the installer smart enough to pull packages from more than one archive? Yes. During build time it looks for local udebs which will be included in the cd-image. That's not what I was asking - during run (install) time, there is no way to pull udebs off the net then, I gather?

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:49, you wrote: That's not what I was asking - during run (install) time, there is no way to pull udebs off the net then, I gather? If you use your own mirror and modify that, you can. It's even explained in the d-i developer documentation how to do this, as

Re: bug in cpufreqd?

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
Same here. This is on an iBook. Also here is on an iBook g4 last generation. I can't exactly tell when it occurs. For me always when I try to use the computer without charge. Definitely not right after booting but rather later when the iBook goes on battery and back on AC. You guys

Re: PowerMac G4 : how to enable the server mode ?

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
I'm pretty sure the decision to disable autoboot on shutdown was a design decision. If you want a shutdown followed by automatic powerup, you should have used reboot. Except on power failures... On power failures, the system won't have a regular shutdown, usually. So the server mode flag

Re: [OT] Ubuntu and powerpc (was Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
(contemplating to switch to ubuntu finally, as the Debian development process now appears to be broken by design at least as it relates to powerpc) Oh, ubuntu is not better, Well, Colin Watson is handling the port, which is fine, but they also left bug reports from me molder in their

Re: PowerMac G4 : how to enable the server mode ?

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
Yes, it's disabled if you do a shutdown tho. They would be cool if that could be a parameter to be passed to the kernel in the configuration of Yaboot. I'm pretty sure the decision to disable autoboot on shutdown was a design decision. If you want a shutdown followed by automatic powerup,

Re: Mouse/keyboard problem

2006-11-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
I think this is the same as my problem. I've been watching this weird behaviour, and it seems the mouse/cursor sometimes gets stuck in a particular dialog or area of a window, and doesn't follow me when I go to a new window or program, etc. Going back to the previous window and right-clicking

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi fellow debian-powerpc users, Once more, some influent folk in the debian-boot team, who didn't even want to be named, is trying to stop me from working on powerpc d-i. Frans requested uploads of 2.6.18-3 .udeb packages, and so i did it, but the package was rejected. I would be very

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
Frans requested uploads of 2.6.18-3 .udeb packages, and so i did it, but the package was rejected. I would be very interested to learn why the upload was rejected. AFAIK, a reason must be given. The only reason was : reject as requested by debian-boot Someone should be in

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
The only reason was : reject as requested by debian-boot Someone should be in the position to explain the reasons for this. Well, it was not Ganneff, or at least he told me so, i don't know more from the ftp-masters. Frans has said that he requested the reject because i am not

Re: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
On an older 2.6.11.9 kernel I can use my eth0 port but on my newer 2.6.17.11 kernel I have not been able to use eth0 and get this error. sungem.c:v0.98 8/24/03 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) PHY ID: 1410cc1, addr: 0 eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:0d:93:35:91:44 eth0:

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Why not put it into the powerpc-utils package then? As far as I Because Michael Schmitz thinks it is a bad idea, and doesn't really believe in group maintenance ? Sven, I've largely kept silent at your innuendo, but I think it's time to speak plainly again. This is nothing about me

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

2006-09-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
Ideally, the kernel should send up the same codes as a PC keyboard. It doesn't always do that - that's why I asked for someone to collect the ADB init messages. More precisely, we need those together with the xkb model that works right for a particular machine. Maybe the ISO keyboards

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

2006-09-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
Now there is one question left: what is the standard model? In the terminoology of xkb-data 0.8-12exp1, is this macintosh_old2 or macintosh? I would say the former, since these are the same keycodes as with PC keyboards, but I would be glad if someone could confirm. Oh, one more

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

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
keyboards). The kernel should detect this and always generate the same PC-style keycodes, but fails to do so in some cases. I think the keyboard type can be deferred from dmesg|grep 'adb devices' but I forget how exactly. dmesg|grep -A 10 'adb devices' shows the whole set of kernel ADB

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

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
[... most interesting discussion of xkb workings snipped ...] In unstable, there are 2 models: macintosh and macintosh_old. The latter is for older kernels, and should probably be renamed into macintosh_adb for clarity reasons. Please pick another name - macintosh_old is strictly for ADB Macs

Please requeue muscle (Re: Building muscle on powerpc)

2006-09-01 Thread Michael Schmitz
I prepared a new version of the muscle package, which was sponsored at at the beginning of august and fixed a ftbfs bug on ppc. However, the buildd did not attempt to build the package. Can an admin re-enable the autobuilding of muscle? (try injecting steroids in the motherboard ;)

Re: can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-09-01 Thread Michael Schmitz
I am running an old G4/400 with a usb keyboard for testing reason with the current kernel (2.6.17.11 from kernel.org). I do not know when it happend but I am not able to switch to a virtual terminal anymore. If I remember right , I could switch with (CTRL+Option+F1) to vt1 with kernel

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Maybe this is because there are so few powerpc porters left in debian ? Or those who used to be porters got interests in something else, leaving only me, which kind of burned out earlier this year ? I'm not talking about d-i. Someone's obviously taking care of the autobuilders etc.,

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Once upon a time, this list was actually used for its purpose as declared on http://lists.debian.org/ports.html Just for the history record, what was the name of that particular list? :) Must have been debian-powerpc... for general powerpc topics, we used to have c.o.l.powerpc -

Re: Some .debs are 404

2006-08-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
BootX supports initrd... ... as long as it's named 'ramdisk' or some such, IIRC. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need HowTo to solve Ubuntu Breezy PPC system freeze at login on G5.

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Schmitz
Yes!!! The problem was apparently the module. I commented the module out of /etc/modules from a live CD and then booted into the system. I was able to login and update the system to the latest packages and kernel in Breezy. I now have a more or less functioning system to boot into! The

Re: Need HowTo to solve Ubuntu Breezy PPC system freeze at login on G5.

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Schmitz
Same thing - work in progress IIRC. BenH and Johannes Berg are the names that come to mind here. I don't really have any relation to the thermal control code. :) I know that - but you did rise to the challenge nicely WRT sound. Thermal is Ben's turf, and the archive should have some clues

Re: SSA

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
Does anyone know if there are plans for linux to support SSA (Serial Storage Archetecture), or is it already invisibly there as a low-level SCSI driver? I can get external SSA arays cheaper than I can get the mounts for internal SCSI drives for my H50. There is no SSA support - someone needs

Re: panics on powerbook3400 misc problems

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
Ouch... looks bad... looks like memory corruption to me. I'll try to boil it down to a reasonable test case - in fact, leaving samba out of the init scripts it boots fine, and I can hammer it with MOL and OO.org. until close to OOM. Ater the system boot has completed, I can start

Re: panics on powerbook3400 misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/80MB RaM/1.GB (after subtracting OS9) hd macsense aerocard (intersil4) pcmcia + bus card install. openbox+gnustep(well some of it ...), gtkmm, ... I have a 3400 in a drawer, I'll give it a spin asap with recent kernels. On the topic of boot panics: I just noticed cold

Re: panics on powerbook3400 misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
On the topic of boot panics: I just noticed cold booting 2.6.17 (pulled Tuesday) panics somewhere during knfsd or samba startup. The oops does end up in the log so it does not seem fatal 2.6.17-rc5 does boot fine under the same circumstances. Ouch... looks bad... looks like memory

Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.15 on G4

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
ALERT! /dev/hda6 does not exist. Dropping to shell! That's more interesting... is it loading the IDE driver ? Is it finding your partitions ? Might be different ordering of SATA/regular IDE drive in the installer vs. installed system? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: keyboard backlight on PB 5,4 and question about modem

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
I'm unable to make the keyboard backlight working :( the module i2c-dev is loaded but not used by anyone... Did you installed pbbuttonsd (or kblevel, see a previous thread on this list) ? ops, yes, I forgot to write.. I have the latest pbbuttonsd release (and it works for all except

Re: keyboard backlight on PB 5,4 and question about modem

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
the module i2c-dev is loaded but not used by anyone... You might need i2c-powermac, too. I have it too, but, as i2c-dev, the modules is not used :( I also made /dev/i2c-4 (as I found somewhere in the web), but the keyboard backlight still does't work... IIRC limiting the i2c bus scan to

Re: kblevel - set keyboard illumination directly

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
I've extracted the keyboard illumination code from pbbuttonsd for my own use. I post it here in case it may be useful to others. IIRC there's been lmud to do the very same thing. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: I lost yaboot!

2006-06-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
The command is : mount /dev/hda2/ /new_dir And the output is : mount /dev/hda2/ /new_dir failed. No such file or directory try a mkdir /new_dir ? Or /dev/hda2 instead of /dev/hda2/ ?? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: cross compiling Mozilla for Power PC

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
You seem intent on doing it the interesting way, though. Isn't the interesting way of doing things usually the most fun? I Right, that's why I bothered to install dpkg-cross, read the man pages and README.Debian files and tinkered a bit with it to see how it would work out. mean,

Re: Unsuccessfull try to report a bugfix against yaboot via mail

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
a try to report a bug via mail against the package yaboot, which is orphaned, shows no success. [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 140.211.166.43_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./ Remote_host_said:_550_Administrative_prohibition/ That's spohr.debian.org - either the BTS is borked, or someone left a

Re: cross compiling Mozilla for Power PC

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
i want to cross compile Mozilla Web-browser for Power PC on a Linux Machine. please tell me the Procedure and the Packages available. Since you're no longer specifically mentioning RedHat, I assume you have installed yourself a Debian system. So there ... First thing you'll need is a cross

Re: [snd] looking for layout-ids

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
If you get no output, you have no layout-id property. If you do get What are the plans for machines without layout-id, like the 5,2 model? Will there be any alsa/aoa support at some point? There will be, but let's get the ones with layout-id first since snd-powermac should work on the

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: powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
$ more /proc/fb 0 ATI Radeon Lf 0 OFfb ATY,264LTP 1 OFfb ATY,264LTP Might be the LCD is actually on the second one? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
Maybe this helps: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462417.html Yes, it does. JoseJX write there that ondemand and conservative cannot be used on 7xx/74xx processors because of the time required to switch speeds. The reason seems to be a rather conservative assumption on the latency

Re: xorg ati external display and XVIDEO

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
Anyway, you can achieve the overlay setting as a radeon driver option in xorg.conf. This has been removed in favour of the Xv adaptor port attribute. Oops. What a shame the videoadapter section in xorg.conf is still undocumented. I'll go package the xvattr binary, then. Michael

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
I've tried both apmd and pmud (with pmud-utils), although the later complained about being installed on a desktop machine. Which it is, if I'm not mistaken. The message is a warning only: if you know what you`re doing, you can go ahead and use pmud. On an old 15 flat panel iMac, I had no luck

Re: xorg ati external display and XVIDEO

2006-05-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
BTW: Is there a reason why xvattr is not packaged in Debian? Nobody's done it? :) It's in Guido Guenther's repository though. There was some disagreement as to which package this should be added to, IIRC. Anyway, you can achieve the overlay setting as a radeon driver option in xorg.conf.

Re: Using kernel 2.6.17-rc2

2006-05-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:24:25PM +0200, Bin Zhang wrote: I have /dev/adb and /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid. I think it's a kernel config problem. Yes, it looks like it, I somehow did miss to configure: CONFIG_INPUT_ADBHID=y CONFIG_MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN=y Please note that

Re: 2.6.16-1 hyper logging

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
It looks like the evbug module is loaded, which is designed to do exactly this. Just unload the module. Is it possible to prevent the module to be loaded at boot ? alias evbug off ?? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Using kernel 2.6.17-rc2

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
My problem with rc2 and rc3 are that /dev/adb and /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid do not exits anymore and pbbuttons cannot cope with this. So the non-existence of both /dev/adb and /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid: Is this a bug, or have these missing devices been replaced by others we should know about?

Re: [PATCH] via-pmu: report powerbutton as proper input event

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
No. I don't see why his posting here should be something development *only* related. The patch obviously can be *used* and tested. I'm glad he posted it here: IINM it's a ppc patch, and I have good use for it for my self-compiled kernels .. :) The argument is that even that doesn't

Re: How to get the latest git sources

2006-04-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
Once you have that, how do you get for example 2.6.16 out of it? I assume you can get all previous 2.6 versions this way, right? No. I would guess that's not possible. Actually I would rather see it as a waste of resources, because if someone needs an older 2.6 version he or she might

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
Nope, something like 'dont send mouse clicks when the user taps the touchpad'. Ignoring events while typing we can already do in user space. Figuring out if the mouse button was hit, or just the surface of the pad is something only the kernel driver can handle. That ought to be easy to

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
Right ... is there a ioctl available from the appletouch driver, so this functionality can be added to trackpad? No. What precisely would you be looking for? Something like 'ignore all events now' and 'send events again'? Nope, something like 'dont send mouse clicks when the user taps the

Re: One-Button iMac mouse

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
someone tried to do that a while back and I've provided that person with a test binary to try out a particular solution. Haven't heard back yet. If there is something to try and test I am really willing to do that. I can also read the code and change a few things, but I'm not so

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
In osX we got the opportunity to turn on the Ignore accidental input. Is there a similar option in linux. The random input from the pad itself can be pretty annoying. You can use mouseemu to ignore trackpad input while typing. Or you can use the aptly named trackpad binary from

Re: Airport Extreme / Etch

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
i've tried 2.6.17-rc2 and it runs fine, but I don't have sound at the moment. (/proc/asound/cards says no soundcard) Seems to be a side effect of some i2c stuff, investigating if ben's patches fix it. There's been patches floating around that EXPORT_SYMBOL() the address of the mach_powerpc

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
Or you can use the aptly named trackpad binary from powerpc-utils. That wont work cuz of the usb trackpad. Right ... is there a ioctl available from the appletouch driver, so this functionality can be added to trackpad? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: vlc

2006-04-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
Try to set the correct device for the DVD drive - hda is your hard disk, the DVD ought to be on hdc then. He want to read a AVI or MPG from the Hardisk! I figured. But choosen the wrong menu (File = Open Medium = Volume) instead of (File = Open File) That's even possible for a mounted

Re: 2.6.16 backtrace at boot (Ibook G4) (related to PowerBook5,4 -- no sound?)

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
Commenting out the -ENODEV return gives me working sound; didn't I mention that? There is a proper patch in paulus tree.. it's basically the patch I posted with an extern declaration at the beginning of the macro before the EXPORT_SYMBOL. Yep, I got that right; just wanted to report that

Re: undefined reference to outb

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
I try to compile this file[1] on my ppc sarge. But I get some linking errors with some functions (outb,...). This program compiles fine on x86. I suspect problems in asm/io.h. It's not portably written. Unless you absolutely need to access the device via the IO aperture, just map the

Re: One-Button iMac mouse

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
I want to know if there's some way of changing the controls so that when you have a button down (CTRL, ALT etc.) and click the mouse you get the contextual menu up. There is a patch: http://geekounet.org/patches/#linux-2.4.19-ctrl_click.patch Yes, it is as bit old... would be nice, if

Re: 2.6.16 backtrace at boot (Ibook G4) (related to PowerBook5,4 -- no sound?)

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/setup.c:721: error: 'mach_powermac' undeclared here (not in a function) arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/setup.c:721: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'mach_powermac' make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/setup.o] Error 1

Re: vlc

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hey michael, i realize that, thats the strange part. I can set the path and it makes no differance. also that happens when i'm trying to play an avi file thats on my hardrive. In fact i get that when i try to play any media files at all with it. Doesn't happen for me here - I've only tried

Re: 2.6.16 backtrace at boot (Ibook G4)

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Here a trace at boot from the sound driver : I think that bug happens if the sound driver loads before i2c-powermac. i2c-keywest is still request-module()d in 2.6.17-rc1, FWIW. Regarding other sound breakage with 2.6.17-rc1, I traced that to machine_is(powermac) returning zero in

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Based on a quick check I'd say it did - the ambient light sensor works again with the unhacked pbbuttonsd. I'll have to boot an old 2.6.16 to compare yet. Thanks! Michael Does not seem to be able to test the patch till after easter, but will do. But I'm not sure we're talkin bout

Re: mouseemu 0.15-2 broken with kernel 2.6.16.*?

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
can someone confirm, that mouseemu 0.15-2 is broken with kernel = 2.6.16? I had it successfully running with 2.6.15.4 and switched to the 2.6.16 series to get Airport Extreme support (1). Now mouseemu stopped working. Should not happen - the changes that went into -3 fixed rather long standing

Re: Mac On Linux

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Specifically to Sven I was wondering if anyone was still having trouble compiling the MOL module in Etch. It took trial and error for me all day, (and about twelve different HowTo's) but I finally got the modules done. The reason I ask Sven is because I read your name on one of the messages

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 16:14 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: I disabled the automatic light dimmer within pbbuttonsd, that fixed the problem with my PB. On a maybe related note: I found that pbbuttonsd doesn't correctly discover the i2c device for the keyboard illumination anymore

Re: vlc

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from http://dvd.sf.net libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hda14 mounted on / for CSS authentication Try to set the correct device for the DVD drive - hda is your hard

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
On a maybe related note: I found that pbbuttonsd doesn't correctly discover the i2c device for the keyboard illumination anymore. That's with 2.6.16. Maybe something similar happened in your case. Does that fix it ? Based on a quick check I'd say it did - the ambient light sensor works

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
Actually, I think the problem is that the code linux is using to turn on nap mode is not guaranteed to put the processor in nap mode by the time the blr in ppc6xx_idle occurs. Thanks, Becky. This patch fixes it for me. Comments, anyone? Works for me :-) Michael -- To

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
I disabled the automatic light dimmer within pbbuttonsd, that fixed the problem with my PB. On a maybe related note: I found that pbbuttonsd doesn't correctly discover the i2c device for the keyboard illumination anymore. That's with 2.6.16. Maybe something similar happened in your case.

Re: pbbuttonsd time settting

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
Jeremiah Benham wrote: I want to know if there is a way to update the date or system time to the hardware time when waking up from suspend to disk? I use the hibernate-script package to control suspend to disk. It sets the system clock after resume. I tried it only with pbbuttons and it's

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-10 Thread Michael Schmitz
Even more bizarre: if I get the old arch/ppc default_idle() from the attic, and call that in cpu_idle() instead of ppc_md.power_save(), it just works. Thanks. It works for me. Now I get another new problem, I lose the sound: You should have noticed errors when building the sound

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back next week unless paulus

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Apr 06 2006, Michael Schmitz wrote: Well, 2.6.17 not booting seems well established now. What you can do to track down the cause is called 'git bisection'. Google should have a few instructions on that. Hummm, this is strange, since I just grabbed the .17-rc1 patch, recompiled

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
I see the same hang on my PowerBook 5,9 (17 G4 HR). Note that I don't run Debian, but I thought I'd help out. The patch has a bit too much changes behind it to do a simple revert. Please add the later commit from Paulus on top of this one (ff2e6d7427...) and try that one (may be

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back next week unless paulus beats

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back next week unless paulus

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