IBookG4 External screen (and Overlay)

2004-08-15 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
Hello, this is just to let you know that I've taken some time to document the support of the external screen for the IBookG4: http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.6 Have fun while compiling XFree :D seb ___[ Pub

Re: iBook, built in microphone and Gnomemeeting

2004-07-19 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
my USB webcams: Phillips (pwc/pwcx module) or a classic cpia based one. If it's a toucam pro II it works fine :) seb ___[ Pub ] Inscrivez-vous gratuitement sur Tandaime, Le site de rencontres !

Re: Kernel Oops suspending iBook G4

2004-06-29 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
So, anybody knows how to get the kernel oops message into my logs files? are not they in /var/log/ksymoops ? seb _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère

Re: Kernel Oops suspending iBook G4

2004-06-29 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
The only thing you can do, as far as I know, is to open a terminal console via serial port and then copy-paste from that console. If you're only looking for a console capture then try cat /dev/vcsa file it should contain the console text, you may have to tweak a little to get something usable

Re: ibook G4 - video out

2004-06-22 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
Hi Ok I finally got everything to work on sunday, and even managed to have the overlay on the external screen (phew!), my config can work no matter if there is an external screen or not, it'll automatically adjust to the appropriate resolution (I tried four different monitors ranging from 12 to

Re: ibook G4 - video out

2004-06-22 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
will this patch help me to get this working. Is this a solution to get the crt displays work with radeon. Thanks in advance! Yes it is, it will work if you use the config I provided, I'll give more informations tomorrow when I have more time Good luck seb

Re: ibook G4's internal modem supported?

2004-06-12 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
Hi, I wanted to document it in my howto (http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html) but I read this on this list, which discouraged me Add a delay after modprobe. To my experience, hcfusmbodem is buggy with 2.6 (to the extent that it corrupts kernel data structures and the root

Re: Video Out IbookG4

2004-05-16 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
I need to start x with the cloning layout first. I remeber seeing that but I think it's fixed in my config, (not sure though) what I found weird is that once cloning is enabled, it won't go, even if you reload the single screen config, you'll have to reboot seb ___[ Pub

Fwd: Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]

2004-02-22 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
---BeginMessage--- Hello, I got MOL to work yesterday and I was wondering if through it, one could use the airport extreme driver, I don't have the card so I won't be able to try but if someone is interested, informations about installing MOL were added to the howto

iBookG4 pseudo-sleep / 2.6.3 problems

2004-02-21 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
Hello, I have met a problem when leaving my laptop using the new 2.6.3 kernel, it sometimes sleep, but no in a manner I'd want, it simply shutdown, without saving anything ... I have not found out yet how long it takes for it to stop, I will keep you informed seb

Re: Writing a HOWTO about debian on iBook G4 | hardware informations

2004-02-19 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
Hello It could be interesting to include a preliminary section about the hardware components of this machine or at least a link to an Apple page with that information. I started a such section, let me know if things are missing http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html thanks

Re: Writing a HOWTO about debian on iBook G4

2004-02-17 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
the new (beta) Debian Installer worked (for me) out of the Box. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I think I tried it, but when I would select execute a shell, it would go on with partitioning, not really caring about what I wanted, so I gave up and whined in #debianppc :D I'll

Writing a HOWTO about debian on iBook G4

2004-02-16 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
Hi, This is just to let you know that I've been working on a howto about using an iBookG4 under Debian, I intend to add the missing parts (keyboard and others), and publish it within a few days, let me know if you want to contribute or change things, Please don't pay attention to the typo,