Re: command line wirelss config [was: How to speed up your Mac.]

2007-12-06 Thread Yannick Roehlly
P Kapat wrote: > ok, i need more help... has anyone successfully used ifup / ifdown / > wpa_supplicant method to access wireless network from the command > line?? Hi, A simpler configuration than Jörg's (if you have a simple WPA) is to put this in your /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth

Re: keyboard on ibook G4 with kernel > 2.6.18

2007-06-20 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Emil Nowak wrote: > Hello, > Is there anyone who has keyboard working on iBook G4 on kernel > 2.6.18 ? > Here is my BTS report: > http://bugs.debian.org/428807 Hi Emil, Maybe it's related to this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/425072 Sincerely, Yannick PS: If someone in charge of the kernel is r

Re: Airport Extreme Support

2006-12-18 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I use nm-applet (network-manager-gnome). I need to provide it wpa-psk > and not ascii passphrase too, but I guess everybody do. Btw it's not > that bad as I use gnome-keyring too, and this wpa-psk is saved there. Hi Yves-Alexis, According to Michael (the network-manage

Re: Airport Extreme Support

2006-12-17 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On ven, 2006-12-15 at 22:27 +, Marco Stagno wrote: >> I'm trying with WPA-PSK but I still have troubles (I'm using 2.6.18 me >> too). >> >> Can I ask you if what I'm doing is correct? > > I'm now using network-manager, Hi Yves-Alexis, Which "front-end" do you use

Re:xorg nv options

2006-11-06 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Evan Monroig wrote: > Also, for some reason the resolution defaults to 1024x768 (the maximum > of the internal display) instead of 1280x1024 that I specified.  I guess > that it is somewhat related.. Hi Evan, I don't know if it works for nvidia cards (a quick search on Google tends to answer yes

Re: Is Krita still affected by bug #367059

2006-10-27 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Yannick Roehlly wrote: > Once, Krita suffered from an endianess bug that affected the color > display: in the Debian BTS it's #367059 [1]. This bug is supposed to have > been fixed in the 1.5.2-1 release of Koffice. > > But on my ibook, I have still the problem even with the

Is Krita still affected by bug #367059

2006-10-26 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Good evening (CET), Before submiting to the BTS, I'd like to know this bug is still alive or if it comes from my own machine. Once, Krita suffered from an endianess bug that affected the color display: in the Debian BTS it's #367059 [1]. This bug is supposed to have been fixed in the 1.5.2-1 rele

Re: RfT: MOL 0.9.71~pre9 uploaded to unstable

2006-10-05 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > This is a request for testers. I just uploaded a new version of > Mac-on-Linux to unstable. Please test the new versions and report bugs. > I'm specially interested in tests of Mac OS 9.x and earlier and earlier > versions of Mac OS X as I can't test these myself. Hi and

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

2006-09-09 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Hem, under osx, to have the |\ etc. you need to press the apple key, not > the alt key (on a french keyboard at least). As Bin said, here it's the alt key which is a modifier. The apple key is used for shortcuts (apple+o = Open...). Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2006-09-08 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Good late summer evening, (well, in southern France at least) Bin Zhang wrote: > Option          "XkbModel"      "ibook" With the ibook layout, it was working; but I prefer to use the macintosh layout so that the keypad enter behaves as KP_Enter. As Michel pointed at, the problem was that I've h

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

2006-09-08 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Hi Denis, Denis Barbier wrote: > You can set model to macintosh_old2, this is a workaround until we find > exactly which models need swapped keys.   Well, if I do a setxkbmap -rules xorg -model macintosh_old -layout "fr" -option "" the window manager dies (but not X) - tested with KDE

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

2006-09-07 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Yannick Roehlly wrote: > On the French layout, the and @/# keys are swapted. I just noticed that that's the meaning of "Since all reports so far complained that and keys are swapped, this is now the default. If this breaks your keyboard, please speak up." Is there an o

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

2006-09-07 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Hi Denis, On the French layout, the and @/# keys are swapted. Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-09-01 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Denis Barbier wrote: > If you set XkbModel to 'ibook', the small Enter key (keycode 108) becomes > ISO_Level3_Shift. Hi Denis, With the new xkb stuff, is it possible to tweak separately de keymaps of the ibook keyboard and the external usb keyboard one? >> There's also the problem of the lack

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-30 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Hi, Here's another French with an ibook in love with Debian. ;-) Denis, I tried your xkb-data package with the modifications done to symbols/macintosh_vndr/fr for the modifiers. The xorg.conf options are : Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "m

Re: Background beeping?

2006-01-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Josh Narins wrote: > TiBook G4 (Nov 02 model) Hi! I have the same strange sound on my ibook (late 2004). It happens rarely (about once a week). It is not (well, should not be) related to battery and there nothing in the syslog when the machine beeps. « La vérité est ailleurs. » ;-) Yannick -

Re: HFS/HFS+ mounting problems: HFS-fs: Filesystem is marked locked, mounting read-only.

2006-01-04 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Jesus Climent wrote: > Otherwise, I am now using MacOSX to transfer things to my iPod. ¡Hola! I don't know if it possible (I've no iPod) but have you tryed to check and repair various times the iPod disk with the MacOS X disk utility? Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

(Solved) Request for help to identify some bugs (part one)

2005-10-25 Thread Yannick Roehlly
I think that the list was refusing my message to tell me 'investigate more'... ;-) In fact, the problem was in the composite extension (left by an old test). This extension removed, no more problem! Thanks to Michel who made investigate this problem with another point of vue (using ssh from anothe

Request for help to identify some bugs (part one)

2005-10-25 Thread Yannick Roehlly
(I've tryed to send this message with the three trace files, one via Gmane and one directly, but none of these tries reached the list. Thus, I'm sending this message without the strace files, if someone need them to understand the problem, just ask.) Good (west-european)evening, I'm experienci

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-25 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Le Lundi 24 Octobre 2005 00:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > > The problem occurs at the moment I insert a CD in the slot drive. In some > > rare cases, there's no problem and when it's a blank cd-rw it's ok. Maybe > > kded tries to access to the cdrom to fast? > > Possibly. It looks like a m

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Le Dimanche 23 Octobre 2005 14:15, marco a écrit : > Il giorno dom, 23/10/2005 alle 13.59 +0200, Yannick Roehlly ha scritto: > > Here a simple reset of the openfirmware (Command-Option-P-R a the > > starting of the ibook) does the trick to start again yaboot after a MacOS >

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Douglas Russell wrote: > It will destroy your yaboot stuff, so I've always booted a CD and rerun > yaboot to reinstall the bootloader stuff. I think it might be possible to > switch back to yaboot by booting to openfirmware and making a choice > there, but I've always done the above and it worked

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Hi Ben, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > How do you set it to u/dma2 and remind me the exact machine model It tryed to set the combo drive to udma2 both with "hdparm -q -d1 -X udma2 /dev/hdc" and with "command_line {hdparm -q -d1 -X udma2 /dev/hdc}" in /etc/hdparm.conf (if I use transfert_mode, h

Re: wireless, ural-linux driver doesn't work

2005-10-22 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Paolo Ardoino wrote: > Oct 22 13:03:21 fuzzy PREEMPT Hi Paolo, This may be the problem (at least, it _was_ the problem in my case). Try to disable preempt in your kernel build. Without preempt, ural works really fine here (except for the information provided by iwconfig about bit rate and link q

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-22 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > The kernel should set the DMA speed of the CD to whatever is appropriate > for the drive. If you have problem and slowing it _down_ helps, then > it's indeed something interesting worth noting. If you are on the > contrary pushing it up, then I can't guarantee anyth

Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-21 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Good evening again, As I already wrote on this list [1], I have a problem with KDE 3.4.2 on my ibook. When I insert a cdrom, kded (in fact the "media watcher" part of kded) starts eating all the cpu and I have to eject the cd using de F11 key. This problem have been reported in the Ubuntu BTS und

Presence of airport extreme cart [was: How to get rid of sungem at boot time?]

2005-10-13 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Besides, it's a good thing > anyway as the sungem driver will deal with power management of the chip > even when you are not using it, for example, for sleep mode. It's just a > wrong way of thinking that you should remove drivers for HW you do not > use in fact :)

Re: xorg 6.9 experimental powerpc packages available ...

2005-09-12 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Yannick Roehlly wrote: > I've tested your packages. In 2D, everythings seem ok but in 3D glxgear > reports : Ooops, I forgot to say it is on an ibook (late 2004 rev) with a Radeon 9200. Here comes the Xorg log, I noted various strange things (sorry I don't have a "co

Re: xorg 6.9 experimental powerpc packages available ...

2005-09-12 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Sven Luther wrote: > Please test them out and provide feedback :) Hi Sven, I've tested your packages. In 2D, everythings seem ok but in 3D glxgear reports : - ~670 fps with 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 0 - ~160 fps with 6.8.99.900.dfsg.1-0pre1 0 :'( Sincerely, Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: 3com wireless usb adapter

2005-05-09 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Hi Leonardo, Leonardo Lanzi wrote: > does anyone get the 3Com "3CRUSB10075 OfficeConnect Wireless" working on > powerbook g4 (with driver from http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211)?? I'm using this driver with a Trendnet TEW-424UB wireless usb adaptater on an ibook. The cvs driver works but I'

Re: [wireless question] debian 3.1 on iBook G4 1.2

2005-05-05 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > Well a solution in that way, that wifi is working with another card, > rather than an Airport Extreme card: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/04/msg00842.html Hi. I wrote this post and I was a little too enthousiat at that time (as I told in a later post)

Re: Success story : 802.11g on ibook

2005-04-30 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Matthias Kirschner wrote: >> This afternoon, I decided to buy a Trendnet TEW-424UB which is base on >> zd1211 chipset, chipset for which a free driver exists at >> http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/. I was not sure if it would work, but the >> device is quite cheap (29¤) and I really wanted to have wi

Success story : 802.11g on ibook

2005-04-29 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Good evening! (at least in France) I've been searching for a zydas zd1201 based 802.11b device for a long time. In vain... This afternoon, I decided to buy a Trendnet TEW-424UB which is base on zd1211 chipset, chipset for which a free driver exists at http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/. I was not sur

Re: 10.4 tiger

2005-04-29 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Darrel wrote: > I installed 10.4 today. From "Tiger", I see the os9 partition but not the > Debian partition. > > After reboot, my g4 goes directly into the new Apple operating system. > Does someone know how I can recover the linux partition? It's the same thing with 10.3. When you install Mas

Re: stranded Ibook g4 users

2005-04-20 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Colin Leroy wrote: >> But when I unplug my usb mouse (without even going to sleep), >> mouseemu and pbbuttonsd start to eat 99% of the cpu and I have to >> restart them. Is there a way to investigate on my machine to find out >> the problem and help the developpers? > > Arh, I don't really know i

Re: stranded Ibook g4 users

2005-04-20 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Colin Leroy wrote: > See there: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/colin/patches/2.6.12-rc2/ > > Get the four USB patches by Greg KH and the Fix_IDE_related_crash > patch by Ben. > > They work great for me, and I think they're all in the queue to 2.6.12. Hi Colin, I tryed these pat