Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:35:33PM +0200, Djoumé SALVETTI wrote: Le vendredi 10/29/04 Joerg Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : yes, this will do it, in my case the fbdevice is running fine now, Works fine here also. thank you guido for your time and fb skills. Many thanks Guido! Thank

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:56:36AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Guido Guenther writes: fullscreen mol, although that currently has some problems ;) Namely? It fails to setup the video mode correctly on

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le vendredi 10/29/04 Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : The problem is fixed by this patch against 2.6.9: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/rivafb-fix-mode-switch-and-nv30.diff It also fixes rivafb for the newer 12 pbooks (NV30). Many thanks to Wolfi and Joerg

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Joerg Maier
Can I safely add : #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_GEFORCE_FX_GO_5200 0x0329 to pci_ids.h and try recompiling? yes, this will do it, in my case the fbdevice is running fine now, thank you guido for your time and fb skills. # cat /proc/fb 0 NV32 ---

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:56:32PM +0200, Djoumé SALVETTI wrote: Le vendredi 10/29/04 Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : The problem is fixed by this patch against 2.6.9: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/rivafb-fix-mode-switch-and-nv30.diff It also fixes

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-29 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le vendredi 10/29/04 Joerg Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : yes, this will do it, in my case the fbdevice is running fine now, Works fine here also. thank you guido for your time and fb skills. Many thanks Guido! Hope this will be included in the mainstream kernel. -- Djoumé SALVETTI

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-27 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:01:50AM +0200, Joerg Maier wrote: next thing i will do is try the of patch for brightness control. if anybody got brightness control on a 12 g4 with my vga controller it would be very nice to see the kernel param as well as the .config file if it is special in

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Guido Guenther writes: fullscreen mol, although that currently has some problems ;) Namely? Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-27 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:56:36AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Guido Guenther writes: fullscreen mol, although that currently has some problems ;) Namely? It fails to setup the video mode correctly on rivafb, I don't think this is a mol but a rivafb problem though. Sorry if for

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-26 Thread Joerg Maier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guido Guenther wrote: | On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:51:51PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: | |On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:08:51PM +0200, Djoumé SALVETTI wrote: | |Le lundi 09/27/04 Jens Schmalzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : | |Once offb has been

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-26 Thread Joerg Maier
next thing i will do is try the of patch for brightness control. if anybody got brightness control on a 12 g4 with my vga controller it would be very nice to see the kernel param as well as the .config file if it is special in any way (and the patches applied to make all that possible as

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-10-24 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:51:51PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:08:51PM +0200, Djoumé SALVETTI wrote: Le lundi 09/27/04 Jens Schmalzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Once offb has been started, you cannot get rid of it anymore. In order to use rivafb, you must

Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Zoltan Nagy
Hi, I jut got a new powerbook and I installed Debian/Sid with the most recent version of the distributed Linux kernel (2.6.8). It works fine but I cannot control the screen brightness. I tried to configure the framebuffer in the XF86Configure-4 (please find attached my configuration file) file

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Zoltan Nagy writes: I tried to configure the framebuffer in the XF86Configure-4 (please find attached my configuration file) file but the X system gives the following error: Use the nv driver for XFree86, not the fbdev driver. I didn't load the rivafb module. It use the offb driver.

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Zoltan Nagy
HI Jens, Use the nv driver for XFree86, not the fbdev driver. I use nv driver. That works fine without the `Option UseFBDev, but no control on the brightness and of course the pbbuttomd is unable to switch on/off the screen. I didn't load the rivafb module. It use the offb driver. Once

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le lundi 09/27/04 Jens Schmalzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Once offb has been started, you cannot get rid of it anymore. In order to use rivafb, you must build your own kernel and build rivafb into it. But beware, last time I tried the rivafb driver it crashed my machine. I use a patch

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Zoltan Nagy writes: That means only software crash not hardware, isn't that? That means the machine tries to initialise rivafb and freezes. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12, GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:08:51PM +0200, Djoumé SALVETTI wrote: Le lundi 09/27/04 Jens Schmalzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Once offb has been started, you cannot get rid of it anymore. In order to use rivafb, you must build your own kernel and build rivafb into it. But beware, last