G5 fan control and official debian kernels.
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 control - noisy, but acceptable noise level. So, i believe that the choice for the debian kernel is to have builtin both the I2C_POWERMAC and the THERM_PM72 modules. Of the other therm control modules, we have : CONFIG_WINDFARM CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM81 CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM91 CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM112 I suppose they also will all benefit from being builtin, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disable appletouch when plugging in mouse
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 other places. Well, this also happens on my iBook from time to time, but frequently pushing the button given above leads to a 100% chance of appletouch fuzziness. Cute. We really should find a way to just reset it then. If nothing helps, adding a sysfs knob for that ;) johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again
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 don't have pbbuttonsd installed. And g-p-m definitely does things there since it can dim when I go on battery. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again
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 g-s-d wants access to the device, in fact, imho it shouldn't even *try* to access it (rather than ignoring the error) johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again
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 think, and I don't allow my account access to the pmu device, and I also don't have pbbuttonsd installed. And g-p-m definitely does things there since it can dim when I go on battery. 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. Sjoerd -- You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acceleration in the latest iBook
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? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keyboard backlight on PB 5,4 and question about modem
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 Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't run RAR binary
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 installed.) Unpacking unrar (from unrar_3.5.4-1_powerpc.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of unrar: unrar depends on libc6 (= 2.3.5-1); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3. unrar depends on libgcc1 (= 1:4.0.2); however: Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:3.4.3-13. unrar depends on libstdc++6 (= 4.0.2-4); however: Package libstdc++6 is not installed. So I tried to upgrade / install libc6, libgcc1 and libstdc++6, only to find that I'm missing a lot of dependencies which are required for those three. I started to wonder whether my kernel is out-of-date (it's 2.6.8), if I upgrade the 2.6.16.14 kernel for PPC listed here: http://www.ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=74 Will it solve the lack of libraries problem? (Debian on iBook G3, OS X was deleted.) Thanks in advance. Lawrence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't run RAR binary
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 database ... 37263 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking unrar (from unrar_3.5.4-1_powerpc.deb) ... This version 3.5.4-1 is not for sarge, you should try 3.5.2-0.1 from http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/unrar if you use sarge. Best regards, Bin dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of unrar: unrar depends on libc6 (= 2.3.5-1); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3. unrar depends on libgcc1 (= 1:4.0.2); however: Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:3.4.3-13. unrar depends on libstdc++6 (= 4.0.2-4); however: Package libstdc++6 is not installed. So I tried to upgrade / install libc6, libgcc1 and libstdc++6, only to find that I'm missing a lot of dependencies which are required for those three. I started to wonder whether my kernel is out-of-date (it's 2.6.8), if I upgrade the 2.6.16.14 kernel for PPC listed here: http://www.ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=74 Will it solve the lack of libraries problem? (Debian on iBook G3, OS X was deleted.) Thanks in advance. Lawrence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.15 on G4
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 anybody looking at retrofitting them back in? Rick On Jun 23, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Magnus Käck wrote: I recently installed testing ppc on my mac mini with no problems, but just after I upgraded and now I get this during boot. i8042.c: No controller found. FATAL: Error inserting i8042 (/lib/modules/2:6.15-1-powerpc/kernel/ drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko): No such device ALERT! /dev/hda6 does not exist. Dropping to shell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
support for Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) for Linux?
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 housings that can either have SCSI or SSA back-panes. 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. Any ideas? Doug Tutty, Kingston ON Canada. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which power-management package on an embedded ppc under etch?
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 after a period of inactivity, maybe try to clock down CPU (if it is ever supported), maybe run some user-provided scripts to, for example, spin down the fan in a non-standard way... Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.15 on G4
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 that prevented this but got dropped from the 2.6.15 kernel. Is anybody looking at retrofitting them back in? I guess it is on my TODO list, but anybody is free to contribute to those, they are in the debian kernel svn repo (http://svn.debian.org). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: support for Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) for Linux?
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SSA v fibrechannel
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 appears that there may be a fiberchannel driver. Does it work? I know I've got a lot of reading to do; I've got the pdfs and am wading through it all, but ofcourse it doesn't talk about Linux in general. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB?
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 diagnostic manual lists as one of the errors that an installed PCI card doesn't have a recognized VPD. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)
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 was never successfully reverse-engineered. Ah, ok, then it makes no sense to build a special kernel for those, until more information is found about the above. I have a Motorola MTX PreP system with dual 604e's that I can test this on. But you never managed to get SMP working on it, right ? SMP works but I was having problems where it would crash after 3 or 4 months of uptime in the software raid1 code. This was with 2.4 kernels though.. I have not tried a recent 2.6 kernel yet. FYI, linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp version 2.6.15-8 works on my MTX board. kalmia:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 604ev clock : 300MHz revision: 1.0 (pvr 000a 0100) bogomips: 297.98 processor : 1 cpu : 604ev clock : 300MHz revision: 1.0 (pvr 000a 0100) bogomips: 297.98 total bogomips : 595.96 machine : PReP Dual MTX w/ Parallel Port l2 cache: none simms : -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
