Re: USB Mouse spurious disconnect/reconnect

2004-02-18 Thread Marc-Olivier Killijian
I use a 2.4.24-ben1 and actually you are rigth, it happens since quite recently. But I had to switch because I installed Jaguar ... I'll try to use /dev/mice as the next post suggests and then I'll see. Thanks, Le mar 17/02/2004 à 17:25, Matthew H. Ray a écrit : Which kernel version are you

Re: USB Mouse spurious disconnect/reconnect

2004-02-18 Thread Marc-Olivier Killijian
I was using /dev/input/mouse1, unfortunately I don't remember why. I moved to /dev/input/mice and see if it corrects the problem. Thank you very much for your help, Marco Le mar 17/02/2004 à 23:08, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:04, Marc-Olivier Killijian wrote: Every so

Re: Writing a HOWTO about debian on iBook G4

2004-02-18 Thread Colin Leroy
It seems many people build their kernels in /usr/src, [...] .. Linus has also pointed out several times that people should *not* compile kernels in /usr/src/linux, and instead do it in their home directory as a regular user, not root. The only time you should become root is when you install

Cannot use XFree86 on iMac G4 800MHz 17

2004-02-18 Thread Vincent LADEUIL
Hello, I have already used Linux on x86 for 5 years (Red Hat, Suse). I want to experiment now with Debian on Powerpc. I googled a lot for 3 weeks now and I still have to find the correct mix of packages. Starting with debian 3.0.r2 ppc-binary, I upgrade to unstable/testing

Re: Recent issue with cd drive on PB 12 (matshita)

2004-02-18 Thread Olivier Crouzet
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:18:10 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Olivier! i am still bugged by your problem with the 2.4 kernel. can u send a .config what does cdrecord -scanbus show? anything? I'll send this information in the next few days, I'm sorry I haven't got enough time now for it.

CUPS 1.1.20final-14 is a kernel 2.6 killer on PPC

2004-02-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
I'm on an iMac CRT (rev.D, 333MHz). Today's CUPS upgrade in Sarge manages to kill kernels upon loading: On 2.6.1, it results in a hang during boot. It eventually gets over it, but complains that irda_setup timed out on 1st byte which means that it's trying to access a port that isn't physically

Re: iMac things

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
The power button. It currently does nothing. How do I trap it? (My lusers are unable to cope with the concept of shutting down, so it has been on the receiving end of some not-so-gentle power-offs.) It would be quite handy to do suspends too. Problem is, I have no idea what packages to

Re: CUPS 1.1.20final-14 is a kernel 2.6 killer on PPC

2004-02-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 00:52, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: I'm on an iMac CRT (rev.D, 333MHz). Today's CUPS upgrade in Sarge manages to kill kernels upon loading: On 2.6.1, it results in a hang during boot. It eventually gets over it, but complains that irda_setup timed out on 1st byte which

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread Kiko Piris
On 18/02/2004 at 14:21, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi need people who own those machiens, especially the recent iBook2 models with a G3 CPU and titanium powerbooks with a G4, to test this patch and tell me if sleep mode still works reliably or becomes unstable. Hi, I've compiled and I'm

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread Colin Leroy
2.6.3-rc2-ben1 compiled fine. Does this have to do with your patch or did I screw up my configuration? new radeonfb wants i2c-core in the kernel (CONFIG_I2C_CORE=y). -- Colin This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread digger vermont
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:09, Colin Leroy wrote: 2.6.3-rc2-ben1 compiled fine. Does this have to do with your patch or did I screw up my configuration? new radeonfb wants i2c-core in the kernel (CONFIG_I2C_CORE=y). Thanks digger

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread digger vermont
Hello Ben, I just rsync'd to 2.6.3-rc3-ben1 and added your patch. I get these errors: UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x5f01c): In function `radeon_setup_i2c_bus': : undefined reference

Re: PBButtonsd: Support for ambient light sensors

2004-02-18 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi Matthias On Di, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:13:29 +0100, Matthias Grimm wrote: Some time ago there was a thread here that discussed an deamon supporting the ambient light sensors of recent Powerbooks. I was asked to implement this feature in pbbuttonsd and so did I. Thanks a lot! Works OK for

Re: Solid lockup on latest benh 2.6 kernel + PB 12

2004-02-18 Thread David Pye
Hi, my dmesg and kern.log seem full of info which floods the useful info you requested. I did spot it mentioning initialising OpenFirmware framebuffer driver. Any idea of how to get the whole dmesg output? Also, I get many copies of this error in kern.log IN from bad port 64 at c014f020

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi need people who own those machiens, especially the recent iBook2 models with a G3 CPU and titanium powerbooks with a G4, to test this patch and tell me if sleep mode still works reliably or becomes unstable. Still works reliably on the G3 Lombard. Doesn't seem to interfere with the pmdisk

Re: Writing a HOWTO about debian on iBook G4

2004-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:55, Colin Leroy wrote: It seems many people build their kernels in /usr/src, [...] .. Linus has also pointed out several times that people should *not* compile kernels in /usr/src/linux, and instead do it in their home directory as a regular user, not root. The

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread Antonio Messina
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:21:36PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi need people who own those machiens, especially the recent iBook2 models with a G3 CPU and titanium powerbooks with a G4, to test this patch and tell me if sleep mode still works reliably or becomes unstable. running on

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread Lukas Th . Hey
Works fine, even on: Linux uziel 2.6.2-ben1 #1 Mon Feb 18 18:24:19 CET 2004 ppc GNU/Linux processor : 0 cpu : 750CXe temperature : 12 C (uncalibrated) clock : 499MHz revision: 34.21 (pvr 0008 2215) bogomips: 995.32 machine : PowerBook4,1

atyfb broken in linux-2.6.3-rc2-ben1 and later kernels

2004-02-18 Thread Sebastian Klemke
Hi! Current benh kernel (2.6.3-rc2-ben1 and up) just throws me into xmon when trying to initialize the framebuffer console on my iBook Tangerine. I have CONFIG_FB_ATY_GENERIC_LCD set to yes. Disabling this is booting fine, but then the display is completely unusable, not even X works. Anyone

Install Sarge on a Ibook ?

2004-02-18 Thread Diego Bellavia
Hi, This is my first message in this list, and I willl begin with a presentation : I am Diego, an happy owner of an Ibook G3 900 MHZ, combo. Some weeks ago I upgraded my system to the panther, and in that occasion I partitioned my HD so that a partition of 3 GB is now free just to install a

j2re - A way to make it work with Mozilla ?

2004-02-18 Thread Marcin Kurek
Hell[o] I wonder is there any way to have a working Java plugin for Mozilla or any other browser ? It seems to be a quite hard to find a j2re for PowerPC CPU's, I was able to found at last 3 solutions: - blackdown j2re 1.3.1 (http://blackdown.com/) This one have a Mozilla plugin, but

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 02:45, Kiko Piris wrote: On 18/02/2004 at 14:21, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi need people who own those machiens, especially the recent iBook2 models with a G3 CPU and titanium powerbooks with a G4, to test this patch and tell me if sleep mode still works

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 03:03, digger vermont wrote: Hello Ben, I just rsync'd to 2.6.3-rc3-ben1 and added your patch. I get these errors: Known problem with i2c config, make sure you have i2c and i2c-algo-bit enabled. Ben.

Re: Install Sarge on a Ibook ?

2004-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Diego On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 21:55, Diego Bellavia wrote: Hi, This is my first message in this list, and I willl begin with a presentation : I am Diego, an happy owner of an Ibook G3 900 MHZ, combo. Some weeks ago I upgraded my system to the panther, and in that occasion I partitioned

Re: atyfb broken in linux-2.6.3-rc2-ben1 and later kernels

2004-02-18 Thread Sebastian Klemke
Hi! On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:51:07PM +0100, Sebastian Klemke wrote: Current benh kernel (2.6.3-rc2-ben1 and up) just throws me into xmon when trying to initialize the framebuffer console on my iBook Tangerine. I have CONFIG_FB_ATY_GENERIC_LCD set to yes. Disabling this is booting fine, but

Re: iMac things

2004-02-18 Thread Iain Georgeson
Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we get a key event from the power button (at least on the olde powerbooks) that's just plain ignored. Keycode 116 down (and never up again), as per showkey. We talked about this before :-) Could you try showkey, Iain? The keyboard power