G5 fan control and official debian kernels.

2006-06-25 Thread Sven Luther
Hi all, I have been experimenting with 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 and builtin or modular THERM_PM72 on my XServer G5. The result is as follows : 2.6.16 + modular fan control - airplan noise level. 2.6.17 + modular fan control - still noisy, but orders of magnitude lower. 2.6.17 + builtin fan

Re: disable appletouch when plugging in mouse

2006-06-25 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 20:35 +0200, Sven Henkel wrote: The one named Open button in this pic: http://www.amersol.edu.pe/ms/images/ibookeyboard_1.jpg Seriously? strange, no, I don't usually touch that button at all. Although, maybe that explains why it happens when I suspend and then wake up in

Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again

2006-06-25 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:35 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Yeah, either that or gnome-power-maanger should handle the brightness keys instead of gnome-settings-daemon.. Doesn't it? brightness keys work fine via hal here, I think, and I don't allow my account access to the pmu device, and I also

Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again

2006-06-25 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 14:29 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Your right. It actually does that already :) I thought it was still the kernel itself that did my backlight setting. Now all we need is some nicer user feedback when pressing the buttons. For sure. But I really don't understand why

Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again

2006-06-25 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:16:34PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:35 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Yeah, either that or gnome-power-maanger should handle the brightness keys instead of gnome-settings-daemon.. Doesn't it? brightness keys work fine via hal here, I

Acceleration in the latest iBook

2006-06-25 Thread Arkaitz
Hi, I've one of the latest iBooks, with a Ati 9550 mobility graphics card. Does somebody know how can I (if possible) activate the hardware acceleration? Does Xgl work? Thanks for your time. -- Arkaitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: keyboard backlight on PB 5,4 and question about modem

2006-06-25 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:19:25 GMT Marco Stagno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Debian/SID (kernel 2.6.16) on my PB G4 (15,rev 5.4, 1.5GHz) and I'm unable to make the keyboard backlight working :( the module i2c-dev is loaded but not used by anyone... You might need i2c-powermac, too. Best

Re: Can't run RAR binary

2006-06-25 Thread Lawrence Li
Why bother with any of that when you can install this? http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/unrar Thanks for the tip, but when I tried to install it with dpkg --install package_name, it returned the following error msgs: (Reading database ... 37263 files and directories currently

Re: Can't run RAR binary

2006-06-25 Thread Bin Zhang
On 6/25/06, Lawrence Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why bother with any of that when you can install this? http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/unrar Thanks for the tip, but when I tried to install it with dpkg --install package_name, it returned the following error msgs: (Reading

Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.15 on G4

2006-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: debian-installer I just attempted to install the debian powerpc daily businesscard iso from June 24 on my OldWorld beige G3 test machine, and got the same error. There's been some discussion of a set of patches that prevented this but got dropped from the 2.6.15 kernel. Is

support for Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) for Linux?

2006-06-25 Thread dtutty
Hello, I'm needing a new server and am wanting the low-end of the RS/6000. I've found a 7026-H50 in a rack thats just within my budget. It needs to boot from SCSI which I know is supported. In addition to the bay for this boot drive (and cdrom, floppy, tape,), it also hase two six-pack bay

Which power-management package on an embedded ppc under etch?

2006-06-25 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hi all I grepped apt-cache search and found the following packets for power-management on ppc: laptop-mode-tools pmud pmud-utils powermgmt-base powersaved reading apt-cache show didn't deliver a definitive reply either. Which package(s) is the most appropriate to just spin down an IDE disk

Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.15 on G4

2006-06-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 05:50:17PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: debian-installer I just attempted to install the debian powerpc daily businesscard iso from June 24 on my OldWorld beige G3 test machine, and got the same error. There's been some discussion of a set of patches

Re: support for Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) for Linux?

2006-06-25 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, I thinkg SSA is the better of the two but before I worry about that I want to know if SSA is supported. Untill I know, I can always get the unit with neither six-pack and just use the base boot drive. Unfortunately SSA isnt supported on Linux. Anton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

SSA v fibrechannel

2006-06-25 Thread dtutty
If I can't use SSA for the back panes, I'll go with scsi since the unit has the scsi adapters built in. However for storage in another unit, other than scsi, what is there? Looking at the IBM storage stuff there's a lot of fibre-channel. Reading the SCSI-HOWTO at the low-level driver stuff it

USB?

2006-06-25 Thread dtutty
Is there a way to add USB to a unit that doesn't have it? Can a generic USB PCI card go in a slot or will the firmware barf? Will Linux see it? IBM's description of PCI says that its architecture-independant, which suggests that this should work if the PPC kernel has USB. However, the

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-06-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:41:30PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:50:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:14:33PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: SMP never worked under Linux on those machines because the AIX boot sequence to enable it