Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 15:03 +1300, Torrance wrote: 3) Switch User Freeze. The option in the Gnome menu that appears when logging out, called Switch User, results in a total system freeze. The screen becomes a total mess of coloured pixels, and no kill-xserver command saves us. We are forced

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-12 Thread Torrance
Hi Michel, We've discovered the problem lies with the kernel configuration: the standard Debian 2.6.18 kernel Switches Users fine. Our custom kernels however, do not. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what exactly isn't configured properly. My kernel is essentially a standard g5_defconfig, plus

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:29 +1300, Torrance wrote: Hi Michel, We've discovered the problem lies with the kernel configuration: the standard Debian 2.6.18 kernel Switches Users fine. Our custom kernels however, do not. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what exactly isn't configured properly. My

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Torrance On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:48:25PM +1300, Torrance wrote: But now I am a little confused: to get a brighter screen, is the issue with the drivers/video/nvidia/nv_backlight.c property, or with the bl_curve property? It's the #define in nv_backlight.c. If its the former, then

iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-09 Thread Torrance
Hi all, A few of us iMac G5 users who have recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian (testing) have been writing up a wiki with all the little hacks to get things sorted, and also with those that we still don't know how to fix. The new wiki is here: http://wiki.debian.org/iMacG5 In case anybody

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:03:29PM +1300, Torrance a écrit : 1) Fan control and sound do not work 'out of the box.' We know how to fix these through a simple kernel recompile, but we were wondering if these will be fixed when Etch goes stable? Hi, what a nice summary page ! Sound