Re: RC5-72 dnetc

2003-03-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
David Ulrich wrote: Hi, Is there a dnetc app for RC5 prject on debian powerpc? Thx Whatcha mean on debian powerpc? The only place the dnetc client should be downloaded is from distributed.org. I am currently getting 2.3Mkeys/s RC5 and 9.0Mnodes/s OGR on my AmigaOne running 2.4.19 and

Re: Testing Sarge on IBM pSeries systems

2003-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:24:00AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 16:07:45 +0100, Sven Luther composed: btw, security updates exist for testing, too. just not unstable (for obvious reasons). Erm, i don't think this is true, quite the contrary. It was even

Re: Altgr on iBook

2003-03-08 Thread Frank Murphy
Search the list archives for altgr for the last couple of months, a solution was found I believe. If someone would like to contribute a little writeup about this, I could add it to the install manual's post-install section. I saw this old problem on the powerpc list. I've been messing

Re: ibook2/M3 and 2.4.20-ben7 - does not wake up any more

2003-03-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du mardi 04 mars 2003, vers 23:30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I haven't spotted any other bug and got success reports with this patch, make sure you really rebooted the right kernel. Also, what model of iBook do you have

Re: Altgr on iBook

2003-03-08 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, maybe it is helpful for me, who just posted something relating to that problem. so thanks. olliwolli

Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, On an iBook under MacOS X, I've noticed that MacOS X reduces backlight when the user is inactive and restores backlight as soon as a user press a key. Is it possible to have similar behavior under Debian 3.0 ? Best regards, d. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

trackpad too slippy

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I find the trackpad on my tibook to be more difficult to control than it was under macos. Is there a way to emulate the macos trackpad behaviour more closely? I'm using windowmaker. I've tried changing the mouse settings, but it always seems a bit hard to control. cheers matthew

cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Guido Amoruso
Hi, I'm getting mad trying to get cd-rw working on my ibook (it is a G3 700Hz with combo drive bought in September 2002). I'm using Debian with Ben's kernel 2.4.20-pre7. Now, this is the present situation: I have in my yaboot.conf the line append ide-scsi, there is a symlink from /dev/scd0 (but

Re: ibook2/M3 and 2.4.20-ben7 - does not wake up any more

2003-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 13:52, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du mardi 04 mars 2003, vers 23:30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I haven't spotted any other bug and got success reports with this patch, make sure you really rebooted

Re: ibook2/M3 and 2.4.20-ben7 - does not wake up any more

2003-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 13:52, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du mardi 04 mars 2003, vers 23:30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I haven't spotted any other bug and got success reports with this patch, make sure you really rebooted

Re: ibook2/M3 and 2.4.20-ben7 - does not wake up any more

2003-03-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du samedi 08 mars 2003, vers 16:29, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: Ah ? I broke the 750fx too ? hrm... I just spend time looking at the cpu_setup_6xx.S code and didn't find what broke. Do you use cpufreq support ? Can you try without it ? Can

Re: RC5-72 dnetc

2003-03-08 Thread David Ulrich
Le samedi, 8 mar 2003, à 10:45 Europe/Zurich, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren a écrit : David Ulrich wrote: Hi, Is there a dnetc app for RC5 prject on debian powerpc? Thx Whatcha mean on debian powerpc? The only place the dnetc client should be downloaded is from distributed.org. I am currently

Re: Testing Sarge on IBM pSeries systems

2003-03-08 Thread simon
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:53:56 +0100, Sven Luther composed: On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:24:00AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 16:07:45 +0100, Sven Luther composed: only for stable (woody) and old-stable (potato), but the later will be going away after a time.

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:10:52PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: Hello, On an iBook under MacOS X, I've noticed that MacOS X reduces backlight when the user is inactive and restores backlight as soon as a user press a key. Is it possible to have similar behavior under Debian 3.0 ? try

Re: Testing Sarge on IBM pSeries systems

2003-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:03:39PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:53:56 +0100, Sven Luther composed: On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:24:00AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 16:07:45 +0100, Sven Luther composed: only for stable (woody) and

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Guido Amoruso wrote: Now, this is the present situation: I have in my yaboot.conf the line append ide-scsi, there is a symlink from /dev/scd0 (but I also tryed from /dev/cdrom0) to /dev/cdrom, on boot I get: [...] hdb: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 hdb:

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks. I tried pbbuttonssd just to see but I get an error message about having no /dev/pmu

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 07:40, Guido Amoruso wrote: Now, this is the present situation: I have in my yaboot.conf the line append ide-scsi If that is your actual append entry in yaboot.conf, it is not correct. It should be: append=hdb=ide-scsi plus whatever other options you might need in the

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:14:48PM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Hi, I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks. I tried

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Guido Amoruso
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 21:50:09 +0100, Gary Sandine wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 07:40, Guido Amoruso wrote: Now, this is the present situation: I have in my yaboot.conf the line append ide-scsi If that is your actual append entry in yaboot.conf, it is not correct. Sure, that's not my actual

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 14:01, Guido Amoruso wrote: is it ok to have multiple appends? I don't know. The top of dmesg displays the append arguments in effect; perhaps $ dmesg | grep Kernel command line will tell.

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Jorge Arcas
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 22:01, Guido Amoruso wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 21:50:09 +0100, Gary Sandine wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 07:40, Guido Amoruso wrote: Now, this is the present situation: I have in my yaboot.conf the line append ide-scsi If that is your actual append entry in

Re: SFTP/SCP much slower than FTP

2003-03-08 Thread dylan
Do a quick test to see if the blowfish algoritm gives higher speed. This takes less cpu power to process than the default one. I usually use that on low-end machines (I don't have a Mac, but I have Amigas, 486's and 133MHz RS/6000's which sometimes need it, and an AmigaOne which kinda

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Guido Amoruso
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 22:25, Gary Sandine wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 14:01, Guido Amoruso wrote: is it ok to have multiple appends? I don't know. The top of dmesg displays the append arguments in effect; perhaps $ dmesg | grep Kernel command line Thanks to all! The multiple appends

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:19, Guido Amoruso wrote: (append=hdb=ide-scsi video=ofonly keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1). I think we have the same rev iBook. ofonly does not work for me if I want to use X and all the goodies you mention; I need atyfb (with drm-trunk-module-src for drm).

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:51, Guido Amoruso wrote: Could you explain me what to do? Have I to replave video=ofonly with video=atyfb, and/or change XF86Config-4? I'll search on the list for drm-trunk: in the meanwhile, can you tell me something more? I learned how to do it here

unstable more stable than testing

2003-03-08 Thread Albert Cahalan
No kidding. IMHO, this is just plain wrong. :-) I added an unstable line to /etc/apt/sources.lst so that I could get support for Linux 2.5.xx kernel modules, which forced a glibc upgrade as well. Then I booted into 2.5.62 with oprofile hacked in. (using linuxppc-2.5 source) Suddenly: 1. Some

newbie questions from a wallstreet user

2003-03-08 Thread matt holland
Hi there. I just got x and kde working by switching to the vmlinux2.4 kernel in the BootX control panel.now i've got a few questions. 1) There is a verticle line about an inch from the left side of the screen that looks kind of glitchy. i'm not sure how else to describe it. does anyone know