Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin / Hamster
Hi On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:55:32AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Nov 28 2007, at 10:59 -0500, P Kapat wrote: Hi Elimar, On 11/27/07, Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 the mental interface of P Kapat told: [...] Similarly, I have

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-28 Thread P Kapat
Hi Elimar, On 11/27/07, Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 the mental interface of P Kapat told: [...] Similarly, I have tried different configurations for xorg.conf (from other distros and general googling) to mirror the LCD screen to a projector in clone

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Nov 28 2007, at 10:59 -0500, P Kapat wrote: Hi Elimar, On 11/27/07, Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 the mental interface of P Kapat told: [...] Similarly, I have tried different configurations for xorg.conf (from other distros and general

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 the mental interface of P Kapat told: [...] Similarly, I have tried different configurations for xorg.conf (from other distros and general googling) to mirror the LCD screen to a projector in clone mode - no results, hence I am here. I was adviced to have a look at

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-25 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello P, P Kapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Note that hotplugging a monitor per se isn't expected to have any direct effect; something like xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto I don't actually need to do this, but if I do (note for my

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 13:17 -0500, P Kapat wrote: On Nov 23, 2007 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hotplugging a VGA monitor to an alubook 5,8 with a fresh ati driver works ... minor mouse isues, as of yet, but working :) ... details below .. I became a bit more

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Jörg On Sun, Nov 25 2007, at 10:14 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hello P, P Kapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get back to 1024x768 resolution on the external display? xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x786 Ahhh, that 'mode' option - what it does, that is - was what I was missing

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-25 Thread P Kapat
Thanks Jörg, On 11/25/07, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] bottoom edge of the external monitor. How do I get back to 1024x768 resolution on the external display? xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x786 Hey that works.. thanks.. -- Regards PK

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-25 Thread P Kapat
Hi Michel, On 11/25/07, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 13:17 -0500, P Kapat wrote: I became a bit more adventurous and tried out the experimental ati driver... Hotplugging a VGA monitor seems to work (on my iBook G4 - powerbook 6,5) exactly as hotplugging

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-24 Thread P Kapat
Hi, I have been playing around with my iBook G4, and here is the report: On 21 Nov 2007 20:39:43 GMT, Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly, I'd go for Unstable: 1) You get Xorg 1.4 with Xrandr 1.2 support and the latest and greatest ati driver 2) You get the latest kernel and

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-24 Thread P Kapat
Hi, On Nov 23, 2007 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hotplugging a VGA monitor to an alubook 5,8 with a fresh ati driver works ... minor mouse isues, as of yet, but working :) ... details below .. I became a bit more adventurous and tried out the experimental ati driver...

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Nov 24 2007, at 03:20 -0500, P Kapat wrote: @Wolfgang: thanks for the file, but I couldn't see anything specific to a dual monitor setup (at least in clone mode) in there. I think I did not make my self clear - My bad: You clearly wrote of an xorg.conf for clone mode. Attached is an

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-24 Thread P Kapat
On 11/24/07, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bad: You clearly wrote of an xorg.conf for clone mode. Attached is an xorg.conf I probably was using for display cloning for a few tests last year. I hope it helps ... but no guarantees ... :) Thanks for the file - I'll keep this in

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 03:04 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: What I know is, that with xrandr 1.2 hotplugging a 2nd monitor to a 5.8 alubook doesn't do anything at all. Not out of the box, and not here on unstable Debian with packages from a few days ago and kernel 2.6.18 ... The kernel

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-23 Thread Bin Zhang
On Nov 23, 2007 2:54 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 14:49 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Sidenotes: Since installing the new driver some artifacts are visible around the mouse-pointer in its default arrow image ... Please let me know if This

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hotplugging a VGA monitor to an alubook 5,8 with a fresh ati driver works ... minor mouse isues, as of yet, but working :) ... details below .. On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 03:04 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: What I know is, that with

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 14:49 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Sidenotes: Since installing the new driver some artifacts are visible around the mouse-pointer in its default arrow image ... Please let me know if This last line should have been saying: mouse-pointer on X in its default arrow

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 14:49 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: No sidenote: All that is real fine progress, Michel. So last, but most certainly not least thanks to everyone who made all this possible, among them Rickard E. (Rik) Faith Kevin E. Martin Alan Hourihane

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Nov 21 2007, at 23:22 -0500, P Kapat wrote: [ ... ] I have been playing around with xorg.conf in the past. Could you be kind enough to provide a working xorg.conf - so that I can start from there... Thanks, Attaching xorg.conf, working here on an alubook, and on a

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-22 Thread Javier Ramirez
You can check this site. It helped me a lot. http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/ I hope it helps. Orlando. On Nov 22, 2007 5:52 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 21 2007, at 23:22 -0500, P Kapat wrote: [ ... ] I have been playing around with xorg.conf in

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Nov 22 2007, at 09:24 -0600, Javier Ramirez wrote: You can check this site. It helped me a lot. http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/ Thanks for this - but IINM this should be dated now: I just realized that hotplugging monitors is possible now with xorg 7.3:

getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-21 Thread P Kapat
Hello list, Greetings. I am a debian user since few years now. But relatively a new linux-on-powerpc user. I hope my questions are appropriate to this list, otherwise plz let me know. My current setup: Machine: iBook G4: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-21 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:50:08 +0100, P Kapat wrote: 1. Is it possible to achieve [1] and [2] (for WPA enc) on Etch (may be using backports too) or do I have to break my system to a hochpoch of testing-unstable-experimental? Honestly, I'd go for Unstable: 1) You get Xorg 1.4 with Xrandr 1.2

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-21 Thread P Kapat
Thanks for the reply Jack., appreciate it. On 21 Nov 2007 20:39:43 GMT, Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:50:08 +0100, P Kapat wrote: 1. Is it possible to achieve [1] and [2] (for WPA enc) on Etch (may be using backports too) or do I have to break my system to