Re: Laptop Mode

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:04:37PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2004 15:32 schrieb christophe barbe: > > > The laptop-mode-tools don't run out-of-the-box on powerpc machines yet. > > > You need to make the connection from lapto

Re: Laptop Mode

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:56:17PM +0200, Kiko Piris wrote: > > Anything else doesn't make much sense. > > Nope, this is not true (at least for me :-). > > I use laptop-mode on my iBook and I "start" it with a /etc/init.d > script. > > I want it running *all the time* (regardless if I'm on batte

Re: Laptop Mode

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:27:05AM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Am Dienstag, 14. September 2004 18:05 schrieb Bryan Forbes: > > I've installed laptop-mode-tools and started it up, but when I switch to To be clear, bryan installed the 'laptop-mode-tools' package. > > battery, it doesn't switch l

Re: Laptop Mode

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:27:10PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > pbbuttonsd - this daemon works also on powerpc machines and try to support > the > full range of power management from dimming the display if idle, over spin > down the hard disk to different suspend modes. Battery supervision and

Re: mono packages

I currently have monodevelop monodoc and muine working on debian/unstable. Everything I had to do was to rebuild from deb source a few packages that were not built for ppc for missing build-dependencies. Concerning mcs, as far as I can see it is available as a debian package from debian/unstable.

Re: gnome 2.6 -> no more .Xmodmap

So far the best solution I have found is to load my Xmodmap file myself: ~$ xmodmap .Xmodmap The gnome keyboard properties is really scary. I was not expecting this kind of thing from gnome. Another gnome 2.6 disapointment is the fact that when you logout, you can see gnome switching to the defa

gnome 2.6 -> no more .Xmodmap

I upgraded to gnome 2.6 yesterday and it went rather well (except that I was prompted to accept the new config file for each schema file in capplet IIRC). But when login in gnome 2.6, I was inform that my .Xmodmap would be ignored and I had to use the keyboard properties. Here is the content of my

Re: Airport Monitor Mode Patches

I have a preliminary kernel module package that replace the stock orinoco/airport drivers with those from the savannah project: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco/ You can find my package at: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/tmp/ I should update the source but the current on

Re: xsane crash

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:43:23AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try to downgrade libusb before doing anything else... > > For me, libusb after 0.1-4_1%3a.0.1.7.x simply don't work. > > The actual version is : > > libusb-0.1-4_1%3a0.1.8-7_powerpc.deb > > Not working, because xsane segfault

2.6.3-ben2 and "usbfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed ..."

I am having problems using gphoto2 with the 2.6 kernel. It works a little bit and then the kernel output: usbfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 3 ep 0x81 len 4096 ret -110 Is anyone seeing this too? libusb is using /proc/bus/usb. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPri

[RFC] Package for orinoco (airport) drivers with scanning support

I have prepared a kernel source package for the orinoco driver from upstream CVS. In upstream CVS [1], Moustafa Youssef scanning support has been merged among other improvements. You can find the package 'orinoco-cvs-module-src' at: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/tmp/ It's a kernel source

Re: (no) Sleep with 2.6.3-ben2 on tibook3

Le mer 03/03/2004 à 17:18, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > > I think the problem is in my .config file. > > Now that I think about it, I believe Michel Daenzer has a TiBook3 too. > > Almost, it's a TiBook IV. :) My config is > http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/config-2.6.3-ben1-ck1 . So my memory is pa

Re: (no) Sleep with 2.6.3-ben2 on tibook3

Le mer 03/03/2004 à 16:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > That's weird. I works fine on the rev IV I have here and a friend > of mind has it working with a rev III... I think the problem is in my .config file. Now that I think about it, I believe Michel Daenzer has a TiBook3 too. Michel, if

(no) Sleep with 2.6.3-ben2 on tibook3

When booting 2.6.3-ben2, the sleep support is broken. It's not an X related problem as it happens on console (with no X at all). When I put the laptop to sleep, the screen stay up and get blurred (large white spots). If I press the powerbutton, the rest of the laptop comes back from sleep and I get

Re: benh 2.6.3 kernel problems TiBook III

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:43:38PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I am trying the 2.6 kernel. It looks like it locks after the open-pic > exit line but in fact it simply run without the console. I heard > hard-drive noises, waited and got X. Setting FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE solved the prob

Re: benh 2.6.3 kernel problems TiBook III

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:03:15PM -0700, Mike Van Milligan wrote: > I just built the 2.6.3 kernel from souce.mvista.com. Everything went > fine, I installed it, ran ybin and rebooted. Then the fun started, > while booting, it locked on the open-pic: exit line. The same problem > that aros

Re: benh 2.6.3 kernel problems TiBook III

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:03:15PM -0700, Mike Van Milligan wrote: > (I had sid running prior to this build). I used basically the config > from added some Just to make sure: My kernel config on my dated page is for a 2.4 kernel. The default conf

Re: OT: Upgrading DVD firmware on TiBook

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:33:31AM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote: > On 29/02/2004, at 8:54 AM, christophe barbe wrote: > > >I wonder if someone know a way to install a new firmware for a DVD > >player (to fix a design design flaw, sort of) that is provided as a > >MacOS9 binary

OT: Upgrading DVD firmware on TiBook

I wonder if someone know a way to install a new firmware for a DVD player (to fix a design design flaw, sort of) that is provided as a MacOS9 binary. I have MacOS X on dual boot but not MacOS 9. Is it possible somehow to do it from the Mac OS 9 install CD? Is it possible to add MacOS 9 to MacOS X

Re: error compiling mol modules

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:51:26PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > Hi, I tried to use make-kpkg modules_image > and got: I don't know but I just got another one: dh_strip dh_compress dh_fixperms dh_installdeb dh_gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: error: source paragraph in control info file is mi

Re: pbuilder (amiga-fdisk), evolution (gal2) issues

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:26:43AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:20:36AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > > I will send a mail to -gtk-gnome to ask them to NMU gal2. > > I did it and a NMU followed quickly. Kudos to the -gtk-gnome guys. > Ho

Re: pbuilder (amiga-fdisk), evolution (gal2) issues

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:20:36AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I will send a mail to -gtk-gnome to ask them to NMU gal2. I did it and a NMU followed quickly. Kudos to the -gtk-gnome guys. Hoppefully the other packages will follow. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: pbuilder (amiga-fdisk), evolution (gal2) issues

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:28:57AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > I use an APT repository with a local apache for that, a file:// APT > repository might also work. I created a dummy package of amiga-fdisk (the original even FTBFS) with equivs (with a higher version number) and was hopping to work a

Re: pbuilder (amiga-fdisk), evolution (gal2) issues

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:37:14PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Then I decided to built everything in a chroot to save some time (to get > > a fixed gal2 and everything rebuilt against it is going to take some > > time). So I installed pbuilder only to discover that it doesn't work out > > of th

pbuilder (amiga-fdisk), evolution (gal2) issues

I was trying to figure out why the last uploaded evolution was not available for powerpc (in order to complete my g2.4 upgrade) and found that gal2 was the culprit because it was built against a non-existing libgnomecanvas2. So I filed a bug against gal2: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: OT - worm problem

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:27:27PM -0800, Johnathon Jamison wrote: > What is the chance that email addresses in the archives could be > modified to say something like > * From: Zach Archer > instead of > * From: Zach Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > so the email address spiders do not get the

Re: gphoto2 segfaults in sid

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:31:04PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > Downgrade to libusb-1.4 0.1.7-2 available at: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libu/libusb/ > > I wil fill a bug. Here is the bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217725 Christophe --

Re: gphoto2 segfaults in sid

Downgrade to libusb-1.4 0.1.7-2 available at: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libu/libusb/ I wil fill a bug. Christophe On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:59:48PM +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > Hi... > > I was happily using a canon ixus 400 for quite some time now. However > last time ~3 wee

Re: Problems with X on my Titanium PB

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:57PM -0700, Johnathon Jamison wrote: > Hello Christophe, > > I do not rightly know which version I have, or how to tell. I do know > my machine was purchased in Jan 2003, so I would bet it is a IV. I > noticed a TiBook IV page at http://spacepants.org/hw/tibook/ tha

Re: Problems with X on my Titanium PB

Hi Johnathon, Two importants things about my TiBook page: I own a TiBook3 which is more than 1 year old now (make sure you have the same model), and I am still using the config file you got but I am sure it's possible to do better now. What kind of TiBook do you have? What video chipset is in it?

Re: status of the mozilla-xft ppc bug?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:19:47PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >Is somebody looking after this nasty bug? I am afraid that Takuo is not > >going to spend a lot of time on this one. > But he definitely should. It's his package after all! If he does not > know how to fix it, he can set the "hel

status of the mozilla-xft ppc bug?

Is somebody looking after this nasty bug? I am afraid that Takuo is not going to spend a lot of time on this one. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E A qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent. (Intelligenti

Re: OT: dirty tibook

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:12:46AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >P.S. Never loan your tibook to your wife!(or car) > > > > Why would I want to loan my tibook to my car? :-) Are you kidding? It's an Apple toy. I don't see a good reason to loan my iPod to my VW Beatle an

Re: OT: dirty tibook

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:11:45PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:39, Markus Frauenfelder wrote: > > Hi > > > > Have you ever tried a rubber (like the one you use to erase pencil)? This > > sometimes worked for me. > > Just wait 'till all the paint chips off, takes the

Re: Kernel build, auto-off

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:20:55PM -0400, David M. Cooke wrote: > > Are you also using pbbuttonsd? By default, it replaces pmud in handling > > power (I thought this was rather high-handed when I found out; why else > > would I be ru

pbbuttonsd guilty [was: what' up with pmud?]

I found the culprit. pbbuttonsd was running with the option replace_pmud=yes (in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf) and if I understand correctly was doing pmud job but not correctly. I fill a bug report against pbbuttonsd. Thanks, Christophe On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:57:56AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote

Re: what' up with pmud? [clarification]

ng to sleep via apm or via closing the lid. Thanks, Christophe On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 10:50:36PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > With the current sid pmud and benh stable kernel, pmud seems to miss > some event. Looking at /var/log/daemon.log, I can see it working well > when going

what' up with pmud?

With the current sid pmud and benh stable kernel, pmud seems to miss some event. Looking at /var/log/daemon.log, I can see it working well when going to sleep with 'apm -s' (I see the sleep and wakeup events). But when I go to sleep by closing the lid, I see nothing at all. I believe pmud miss the

Re: Wiping out Mac OS X and Mac OS 9

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Hello ! > > Since cloning mode is now working on my iBook (thanks Michel !), I can Ouch I have to wake up. Is it true for the radeon M7? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6

Boot from a FireWire HDD

I am thinking about buying a Firewire Hard Drive for backup purpose. One thing I would really like to be able to do is to boot a copy of my system on the Firewire HD (as it is easy to achieve under MacOS X). It is possible under linux? Also I am interesting by any tips concerning Firewire issues

Re: Airport utility for Linux?

AFAIK there is no perfect solution available for linux. Concerning the airport I have put some info in the following page: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/airport.html There you will find patches to be able to scan for available wlan. Christophe On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:44:12PM -0

Re: Powerbook G4 667

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:25:33PM +0200, Tuxbe wrote: > Hi ! > > What do you think of Apple Powerbook G4 667 ? I am very happy with it. see http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ Christophe > I'm very interesting to by this, and i would like to know if install debian > on it is easy. Can

Re: 2.4.20-ben2 believe it's ben1

g which does a make oldconfig (I don't know for make dep). Don't get me wrong I don't want to criticize, it's just that I expect most debian user to use make-kpkg and get the same problem. Christophe -- Christophe Barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E

Re: 2.4.20-ben2 believe it's ben1

Le mar 01/07/2003 à 02:21, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 02:46, christophe barbe wrote: > > Hi ben, > > > > After a today rsync, I compiled 2.4.21-ben2. > > It compiles fine, boot fines but believe to be ben1 and because of that > > fai

2.4.20-ben2 believe it's ben1

Hi ben, After a today rsync, I compiled 2.4.21-ben2. It compiles fine, boot fines but believe to be ben1 and because of that failed to load module. /usr/src/linux$ grep -n ben1 ./include/linux/version.h 1:#define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.21-ben1" /usr/src/linux$ grep -n ben2 Makefile 4:EXTRAVERSION = -be

Re: Problems with PHP4 & MySQL Packages

, or > B. The process of copying that array into the $_SESSION array. > > (The technique of copying the entire record into the $_SESSION variable has > worked in the past on different architectures...) > > Eric P. > Sunnyvale, CA > > > >From: christophe barbe &l

Re: Problems with PHP4 & MySQL Packages

var_dump is broken. print_r is a nice alternative: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.print-r.php Christophe On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:53:58PM -0700, Eric Pretorious wrote: > Hello, All: > > I'm stumped: I'm using Debian 3.0 (Woody) on a PowerBook Lombard and can't > get the PHP package

Re: alpha version of knoppix MiB ppc looks for testeurs

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:08:04PM +0200, Yves Combe wrote: > Missing features (looking at the PC version) and known problems: ... > *french language as a default I don't see why it would be a problem ;-) It seems to me that it's rather a very good feature. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAI

Re: python on powerpc

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:45:13PM -0400, David M. Cooke wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:03:34AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if you shared my impression that most python programs > > are partially broken on powerpc. The las

python on powerpc

Hi, I was wondering if you shared my impression that most python programs are partially broken on powerpc. The last three programs written in python that I have tried are gdeskcal, straw and eroaster. The first one has significant display problems (the purpose of this program is to display a calen

Re: Looking for a new PPC kernel maintainer

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:32:14PM +0200, samuel desseaux wrote: > hello! > > i'd be interested by the task (i work mostly with mac and debian). Could you > give more details please? > > regards > > sam Looks like you are not a debian developer. I encourage you to look at the related pages:

Motorola altivec kernel library

I saw this PR (on lwn.net): http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-05-2003/0001959749&EDATE= This seems targeted to embedded platforms but surely would benefit all kind of platform. Unfortunately it doesn't look Free (as in free speech). As anyone more info on

Re: evolution1.3

I did rebuild for ppc the previous beta (beta2). I found a bug concerning the file locking tool which needs to be suid but wasn't. I filled a bug. I don't know if it concerns also pop fetching code (I believe not). Christophe On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:10:31AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: >Ha

gphoto2 on powerpc [was: gphoto2 segfaults on my iBook]

Sorry for the delay before noticing this thread. I am the maintainer of gphoto2 and also a gphoto project member. The situation is the following: . The libusb package currently in sid IS broken. see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=170440 . The problem is not new and was alre

Re: pdf viewer that shows hyperlinks?

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:32:38PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Do I need to apply another patch before this one? > > First I have to replace dep_tristate by tristate in the config.in part Is it normal ? > > of your patch (No idea if this make sense or not). If I don't do that, > > xconfig compla

Re: pdf viewer that shows hyperlinks?

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:41:19AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > - Run bash /usr/gnemul/qemu-i386/bin/qemu-conf.sh > > .. > > > Note the /usr/gnemul path. Hope this helps. > > .. > > > + switch (current->personality) { > > > + case (PER_X86_LINUX & PER_MASK): > > > + return "usr/gnemul/x86

Re: pdf viewer that shows hyperlinks?

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 03:32:18PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > The only problems that I have with xpdf are: > > 1 - its anti-aliasing is not as good as acroread's; > 2 - the user interface is not good also; it should probably > use another widget toolkit and a redesig

Re: pdf viewer that shows hyperlinks?

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:42:24PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > - Run bash /usr/gnemul/qemu-i386/bin/qemu-conf.sh ... > Note the /usr/gnemul path. Hope this helps. ... > + switch (current->personality) { > + case (PER_X86_LINUX & PER_MASK): > + return "usr/gnemul/x86-linux/"; Tha

Re: iBook and different network configurations

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:01:30PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > ifplugd is a software that detect when you plug a cable to your > > ethernet > > interface and act accordingly. > > > > whereami and friends, IIRC, are tools that try to identify to which > > lan > > you are connected to. > > Hmm,

Re: iBook and different network configurations

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:51:39AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sorry if this question also apply to the debian-laptop list. > > There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian > and I don't know any of them except from "netenv". > > Which one would you advice? > >

evolution 1.3 for powerpc

After reading the archive of debian-gtk-gnome, I have discovered that once again Michel Dänzer is far in advance of all of us. This is completely unacceptable, he is quietly sending mails with evo1.3 under powerpc ;-) I have decided to fight back and have recompiled the Takuo Kitame experimental

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 06:09:59PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > |Outputing to the screen ? > | > > According to the licence: > > 1. > > Definitions > > c Flash File Format (SWF) or SWF means the file format designated by .SWF Have you already discussed this with the team behind http:

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 05:00:04PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > Pursuant to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a > nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of > developing Products that output SWF. Outputing to the screen ? -- Christophe Barb

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:56:52PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > Macromedia's licence does not allow people to produce their own flash > players. They can only develop software to produce flash files. Sure? The site http://www.openswf.org/ which seems to be the reference seems to indicate th

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:19:07PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > Perhaps others may not know of a petition for Macromedia to > release a flash plugin for Linux on PPC, but still be > interested in it. My understanding is that the Flash file format if documented. If this is true,

Re: powerbook 15" 1Ghz question ...

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:48:54PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > There's definitely no room left in a TiBook for a second battery. You > can hotswap batteries though. Do you mean that you can hotswap the battery when the power cord is plugged in or something else like while in sleep (I heard that

Re: sound

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:21:34AM +0200, Zeno Davatz wrote: > Now if I insert a cd and want to play some music I hear nothing. The CD drive is not connected to the sound chip. So you can't play directly a CD. You must use a software that read the CD and play the content. There is one plugin for X

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

Le mer 09/04/2003 à 12:21, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, christophe barbe wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:57:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On 9 Apr 2003, florian wrote: > > > > another criteria for me is also: gotta wo

Re: filemaker db

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:42:11AM +0200, Bernhard Mollenhauer wrote: > Hi list! > > I have two filemaker databases under MacOS 9.2 on my iMac. Now I want to > change all Mac-stuff to debian gnu/linux. How can I use these db?s under > gnu/linux? Must I learn (my)sql first or is there an easier w

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:57:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On 9 Apr 2003, florian wrote: > > another criteria for me is also: gotta work well with eclipse and other > > java stuff. its possible to compile eclipse by hand to run on debian ppc. > > but it works kinda buggy.. > > apt-get i

Xfree CloneDisplay and M7

I read a doc to install woody on an ibook (in French)[1]. In this page, the author seems to indicate that it is possible to drive the CRT output with some Xfree Radeon driver options. In particular It points to a Xfree 4.3 man pages[2] that mentions some very interesting Clone* option. As somebo

Re: airport monitor mode/ ben8

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:03:19PM +0100, Oliver Ripka wrote: > got a ibook500/standart airport here. > I just tried to run kismet, but the ben8 airport module > seems not to be patched for montior mode. I remeber > that older kernels supported that. > So, am I just doing something wrong or is the

Re: Few Newbie Questions TiBook III - woody

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > Second: how do you guys interchange data with osX? > well, i know there are the hfs+ utils, but as for now, they only can read, > right? (by the way, to where does hpmount a partition, how can I acces it in > X?) I might use hfs,

Re: Debian on a Powerbook 12"

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:08:08PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > Thanks a lot. I preordered a new 17inch PowerBook, and while they certainly > aren't completely the same in terms of hardware, I'm sure plenty of this will > still be relevant. :) Lucky you. That said I don't expect the 17

Re: airport and wlan scan

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:37:01AM +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: > Hmm, shouldn't be too hard... let's see > > First, ifconfig up the interface (don't use ifup - you don't want all > the fancy config...). Then, use iwlist, and get a list of available > ESSID's to identify nearby networks. Based o

Re: airport and wlan scan

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:57:12AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Interesting patch, did you ask the orinoco driver maintainer > (David Gibson) is he intends to merge that with the driver ? I will definitively ask him. The patch seems old (2001) but apply cleanly and seems to work perfectl

airport and wlan scan

I have tested the Moustafa Youssef patch to add the scan feature to the orinoco driver. The patch can be found at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~moustafa/morinoco/morinoco.html This seems to add the scan feature to the airport driver. I have yet to find a place with multiple wlan. The output looks l

Re: Laptop and sleep

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:11:57PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I have not exactly the same setup (both wireless for me) but it should > work too. I will try again tonight. My conclusion (perhaps wrong) was > that it was not possible to ifdown if a wlan was present but not the one >

Re: Laptop and sleep

is available anf ifdown when no wlan is available. I used to use the ifplugd package to so something similar for wire network. Thanks, Christophe > Ben. -- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Laptop and sleep

Now that we have suspend/resume on M7-based laptop, I would like to get some tips on how to make the laptop smart enough to wake up happy. I am mostly always connected to the internet by the Airport. I use to close the lid when leaving work and open it at home and vice versa. The problem is that i

Re: Slow DVD playing [Was: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9]

this morning about what I tested yesterday. Thanks, Christophe On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:33:19AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > Le ven 21/03/2003 ? 10:30, Michel D?nzer a ?crit : > > As Jamie pointed out, someone needs to verify that the sleep patch makes > > the difference. >

Re: Slow DVD playing [Was: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9]

Le ven 21/03/2003 à 10:30, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > As Jamie pointed out, someone needs to verify that the sleep patch makes > the difference. I will try to do that this evening after work. Christophe -- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Slow DVD playing [Was: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:41:20PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > I wouldn't think so. The dynamic power management (which actually makes > the difference between the fan staying on all the time and not here BTW > :) might have an impact, but it seems to work perfectly here. Is DMA > enabled on the

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:18:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > fblevel 15 is far too high. Copy /etc/power/pwrctl to > /etc/power/pwrctl-local, then remove every action in -local (just keep > the structure of the file) and insert your commands as you > wish. -local is called with the same argume

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > willow% cat /proc/cpuinfo > > cpu : 7455, altivec supported > > clock : 667MHz > > BTW, I assume you know how to switch to the full clock? You are kidding, right? Do you mean the 667MHz can run at 800MHz saf

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:03:27PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Putting fblevel 0 in the /etc/power/pwrctl(-local) sleep function seems > to do the trick, and also seems to hide the garbage on wakeup. :) Looks interesting. I have no idea which of the pwrctl_* functions to modify for a TiBook3. Al

Re: Has anyone tried the m6mirror tool?

As mentioned in the mail, Jessy was using a M6-based laptop. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200302/msg00103.html I wonder if the recent patch from Ben improve the situation concerning the VGA output (and the TV out). Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:49:44PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Ladies & Gentlemens The long awaited new power management > code coming right from the ATI labs is here ! Finally :) That's s good. After updating to ben8+patch, suspend is working on my TiBook3. The sound is o

Re: TiBook M7 sleep works!

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:54:03PM +0100, Clemens Mangler wrote: > Hi! > i have an iBook 2.2 (nov 02) with a M7 and a DRI xserver and resume > works! > when opening the lid the screen looks messed up for a second, but then > everything is ok! Yes. Suspend/resume is known to work on M7-based iBook

Re: TiBook M7 sleep works!

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:04:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a tibook 667 DVI, the latest X stuff seems to "work" as far as > sleeping goes. The trick is, you must disable DRI, which isn't a big > deal for me right now, I'll give up 3D accel so my machine doesn't crash > when some

Re: iBook in slumberland

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > Is there hope that the problem will be solved in the future? I have no idea. IIRC ATI promised to provide some help to Ben but I guess they have a good reason to make us wait. The problem is that in my mind ATI was the most linux-fr

Re: where is the tilde ~ on my TiBook?

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:36:41PM +, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a newbie to this list, linux and debian, but I'm trying to install > debian on my tibook. > now i found "Debian GNU Linux on a TiBook III" on the web, which seems > to be a good help to get debian running, but to work

Re: iBook in slumberland

If your iBook is the one with an ATI M7 chip, the additional energy consumption is easily explained by the fact that the chip is not powered down when the laptop is put to sleep. It looks like full sleep (the screen is powered down) but it is not. That's better than the TiBook situation with the s

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > Well, I can explain in a few words what's up with MTU-related problems. > > MTU is the maximum size of a frame you can send out on the network (be > it Ethernet, wireless, whatever). This is a limit on the physical (or > rather, MAC

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:09:35AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > i tried this last night on my tibook. upgraded OS X and the airport > firmware went from 8.4 to 8.7. > > however, booting back into linux i see the browsing problem with some > pages not loading still remains. (and the firmware is 8.7 ac

Re: computer suspends unexpectedly

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:07:35PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote: > I just upgraded to testing from woody and there seems to be some > problem.. my computer (ibook2) just suspends (screen switches off) if > there is no activity for a couple of minutes.. I haven't setup pmud.. > and I can't get it to c

Re: Strange fn-key behaviour on TiBook III

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:20:40PM +0100, Raph HP wrote: > on my TiBook III the fn-key is acting in a strange way. When I got this > computer a few months ago, I had to use the combination fn-alt-ctrl-FX > in order to switch from X to console X. But then, I only had to press > alt-ctrl-FX without t

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:07:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > It is useless with linux players : they do not ask the drive for the > key to decrypt the disc. A RPC-1 drive always give unconditionally the > key to decrypt the disc. A RPC-2 drive does not. Your RPC-2 drive can > be zoned or not.

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:01:35PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote: > thanks for the suggestions folks.. will try it out once the DVDs > arrive.. wanted to make sure I didn't buy DVDs that won't play.. :-) I am not sure if it has been made clear that you will not be able to read DVDs region X if you se

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:03:25AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > > For me turning the encryption off fix the problem. > i did see your note on this and tried turning off the encryption on both > the wap and the tibook. the problem is i can't connect the tibook when > encryption is off, only when it is

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