Re: XEN...if ever?

2006-04-11 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:05 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: > Anyone know when we'll see xen (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ > misc/xen) or equivalent on the powerpc architecture? xen uses 3 cpu rings so, afaik, it will never run on ppc luca -- What's the best thing you could be working on,

Re: User Mode Linux does not work

2006-02-23 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:04 AM, Marco Giusti wrote: > is there an alternative for UML? i must test the comunication between > three computers using ethereal, iptables, ecc. in x86 i lanch three > instances of uml, but in ppc? Try qemu. It seems you can also use MOL to get LOL (linux on linux),

Re: User Mode Linux does not work

2006-02-18 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:53 PM, Dieter Schuster wrote: > does anyone of you run user mode linux on PPC? it doesn't work > Where do I get the file Kconfig.ppc (Kconfig.arch is a link to it), or > waht do I have to write to it? there's a lot of work to do.. luca -- What's the best thing yo

Re: therm_adm103x: inquiry

2006-01-12 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:49 PM, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > I would really like to know if someone managed to use it, > and if so, gives a comparative evaluation of both modules. I remember that there were some problems with fan startup using lm_sensors (but i don't know now). I think you should

Re: therm_adm103x: inquiry

2006-01-12 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:49 AM, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > I'd like to know if there is still people using this module, I've used it for a while: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/01/msg00453.html Now i'm living without thermal control. The logic board of my ibook has been substituted

Re: synaptics compatibility patch for 2.6.15

2006-01-06 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:37 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Maybe it's time to suggest adding a specific one for switching.. Ok, i've contacted Peter Osterlund, the author of synaptics support in kernelspace and userspace. Waiting for its reply. luca -- Beware of programmers who carry s

Re: synaptics compatibility patch for 2.6.15

2006-01-06 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:25 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Can the driver be informed when synaptics takes control of it btw ? Not currently. On x86 absolute mode is set on psmouse-base module initialization. There's no config option here, if you build the kernel with psmouse and you have

Re: synaptics compatibility patch for 2.6.15

2006-01-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:59 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > As I said previously, you should look into not making that a config > option but rather a runtime option. I know, i've also quoted your mail in the readme file as a reminder. This is only an update written in a couple of minutes be

synaptics compatibility patch for 2.6.15

2006-01-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi
Hi all, i've just updated the patch for synaptics xfree/xorg support on adb based trackpads. http://www.artha.org/shammash/ppc/adb_syn/ please test and let me know if it works. tia luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein http://shamm

Re: Under PPC debain, is there any app like iScroll2?

2005-11-21 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:39 PM, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Anyway, i find quite annoying the synaptics behaviour of the automatic > selection of icons and windows if I stop moving the cursor for a second (I > hope you understand what I mean...). Not exactly, i don't use icons.. I've tried with wi

Re: pbbuttonsd and NoTapTyping option?

2005-11-21 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:30 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > does anybody use the NoTapTyping function of pbbuttonsd with success? > > How much would you pay to keep it? ;-) > > I don't use that function - at least not in pbbuttonsd. moussemu takes > care of that for me. Also synaptics xorg driv

Re: Under PPC debain, is there any app like iScroll2?

2005-11-21 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:59 PM, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:20:40 +0100, Tsai Dung-Bang wrote: > > > which patch you apply, thanks... > > http://www.artha.org/shammash/ppc/adb_syn/ glad to hear :) If you're insterested: BenH replied to my feedback request (many thanks!) I

Re: Synaptics driver and the new iBooks

2005-11-13 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:01 PM, Saladino wrote: > I've been trying to install the synaptics driver to disable the > tapping of the touchpad. your trackpad is adb or usb? /proc/bus/input/devices should help > if i have 2 devices, touchpad and usb mouse, why only one > logical device?(/dev/inp

Re: touchpad iBook G4 trubles

2005-11-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:16 AM, Alessandro De Zorzi wrote: > I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=1000 Version=1965 > N: Name="05ac:1000" > P: Phys=usb-0001:10:1a.0-1/input1 > H: Handlers=mouse1 event4 > B: EV=7 > B: KEY=1f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > B: REL=3 AFAIK it's the usb one. Try standard mouse co

Re: touchpad iBook G4 trubles

2005-11-03 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:15 PM, Alessandro De Zorzi wrote: > My touchpad do not works :-( usb or adb ? luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein http://shammash.homelinux.org/ - http://www.artha.org/shammash/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Mouse movements not identified as activity (sleep in 2.6.12)

2005-10-30 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:44 PM, Eddy Petri?or wrote: > Why is this happening? Maybe it doesn't know about your usb-mouse. Plug your mouse and then try to reload/restart pbbuttonsd: during evdev scanning now it should see also your usb-mouse. luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdriv

Re: how to play .mkv files?

2005-10-15 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 12:25 AM, William Xu wrote: > Any way to play .mkv and .wmv files? mkv is matroska and mplayer should support it, the same for wmv. However these are only "containers", you should look at the video/audio codec of the file to see if it's supported by mplayer. luca -- B

Re: qemu and skype

2005-10-02 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:59 AM, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/downloads/skype-1.2.0.17$ sudo ln -s /lib/ld-2.3.5.so > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 qemu wants the i386 one. You should get qemu-gnemul from Bellard's page, put it in /usr/gnemul and then copy missing libraries from debian-x8

scrolling with trackpad and other features, update

2005-08-17 Thread Luca Bigliardi
Hi all, I've solved the "involuntary click" problem reported by some users, new version is always here: http://www.artha.org/shammash/ppc/adb_syn/ Thank you again for testing! luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein http://shammash.

Re: pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-13 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:09 PM, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Patch is in CVS. Thank's a lot! luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein http://shammash.homelinux.org/ - http://www.artha.org/shammash/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-13 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:25 PM, Matthias Grimm wrote: > "mouse" (according the pdf document you posted to the list). To > differentiate the apple and the synaptics trackpad the first four bytes > would be sufficient. Why do you check for the device class too? Because it's different for trackpad

Re: pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:35 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:33 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > Have a look at event_handler() in input_manager.c. You will see that > > only keyboard events and relative mouse events are processed. Any > > other event will be ignored. > >

Re: pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:58 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > But if reading /dev/adb couldn't find the device, what would Luca's patch > > change? > > Hmmm. Maybe Luca doesn't have a new model with USB actually, and I just > thought so. Yes, my previous (kernel) patch was for touchpads on the adb

pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-07 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Hi, below you can find a little patch for pbbuttonsd that partially solve the incompatibility with mouses (in absolute mode) managed by synaptics x module. With this patch you don't need anymore to change "/dev/adb" in "/dev/null" in pbbuttonsd.conf Now i'll try to know why mouse movements are

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-30 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:09 PM, Bin Zhang wrote: > > Yes, you have to play a lot with them. > > > Yes. But it is not easy to find the best options. :) i know, try first using synclient in a couple of remote shells > No error. The power_button does the sleep, but close the ibook does not. I t

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-30 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 07:38 AM, Bin Zhang wrote: > I tested it following your instructions. It works on my ibook g4 > 1.2Ghz with debian_kernel_source_2.6.12 and xfree86-driver-synaptics > package > (but not very well, I think I should change some touchpad options.). Yes, you have to play a lo

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-30 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:54 AM, micron wrote: > Yes, it's configured. I was using it also before applying your patch. can you send me the output of "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" ? luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein http://sha

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-29 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:51 PM, micron wrote: > I'm using an ibook G4 (cat /proc/cpuinfo says PowerBook6,3) with kernel > 2.6.12-3. > I've successfully applied your patch, installed latest synaptic version from > apt-get and followed your instructions. > > But I'm unable to start XFree because:

[patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-28 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Hi, i've written a little patch to have synaptics xfree/xorg driver running with adb touchpads. It's working on my ibook2.2, please let me know if it work also for you. The patch is for 2.6.12-rc4, but should apply to any recent kernel. http://www.artha.org/shammash/ppc/adb_syn/adb_synaptics_0.1

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:12 PM, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > So - the only thing left is to find someone familiar with qemu, kernel > developing, too much time and an Airport Extreme ;) Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some s

Re: 1.67GHz PowerPC G4 Trackpad

2005-02-27 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:28 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > It doesn't appear to be a standard USB HID device, but rather an Apple > home made stuff. Do you know if it's still synaptics-based? You have investigated on hardware or you have read about somewhere? luca -- Beware of programm

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-27 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:38 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote: > I applied this patch, and kismet seems to work now, but after using > kismet my wifi card sometimes goes into a seizure. During the kernel > build, I noticed some warnings when the wireless drive was being > compiled; the lines are attached

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-24 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:14 PM, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Or I can send you the patch if you'd like to build your own kernel. You can find the original work here: http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml The patch for the vanilla kernel is under "Orinoco Driver Patches for 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 & 2.6.

Re: OOo crash on startup

2005-02-15 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:53 PM, Niklaus Giger wrote: > > Has anyone else had this error with OpenOffice? debian package version ? > > but recently it just dies every time I try to start it. have you updated/modified anything ? > On my system openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-1 is installed, which sho

user mode linux on ppc32

2005-02-04 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Hi all, some days ago lynuxworks.com guys made an announcement about their port of uml on ppc32; after that Jeff Dike has received this work, you can read his article on usermodelinux.org (there's also a patch for uml on ppc64). As you can see in Jeff's article the code he has received is a 28MB t

Re: QEmu and Wine

2005-01-31 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:39 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > Cool! That is what I need, I think. Could you please tell me how to do > > this? Thanks. > > Look at this URL : > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117774&highlight=qemu+flash> I've tried that solution and it's really far away

Bug#292974: fonts and remeber workspace not working on ppc

2005-01-31 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Package: fluxbox Version: 0.9.11-1 Severity: normal Tag: sid I've upgraded fluxbox from 0.9.9-1 to 0.9.11-1; as i've logged out and restarted with new fluxbox the fonts are invisible and the remember workspace does not work. I'm not investigating for further bugs since i've downgraded to 0.9.9-1.

ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-01-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i own an ibook2.2 witch has adm1030 thermal control chip. i've used for a while the kernel module written by cedric pradalier, but now he suggest to use lm-sensors. However i2c-keywest does not support lm-sensors, a little patch is needed: --- i2c-keywest.c.orig 2004-07-24 22:39:04.

ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-01-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i own an ibook2.2 witch has adm1030 thermal control chip. i've used for a while the kernel module written by cedric pradalier, but now he suggest to use lm-sensors. However i2c-keywest does not support lm-sensors, a little patch is needed: --- i2c-keywest.c.orig 2004-07-24 22:39:04.

Re: Skype & qemu || mol

2004-12-23 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:06 AM, Cristo Saulo BolaƱos Trujillo wrote: > has any one tried to emulate skype for linux i386 under ppc ? i've tried one or two month ago with qemu-i386 , i've got lots of segfaults. maybe it works emulating a whole i386.. luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to sup

Re: XMMS and alsa output on sid (goes too fast)

2004-12-20 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:12 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: > did anyone ever find a solution to this problem? I'm having the same issue > (command line mp3 players like mpg321 work fine but xmms 1.2.10 with alsa > plugin 1.2.10 sounds crackly and is too fast). Try disabling preemption from your kern

ibook 2.2 doesn't use whole battery

2004-12-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi all, i've a problem with the battery of my ibook 2.2 : In battery mode every time the charge percentage reaches 35-38 % the level falls to 0% (and pbbuttonsd suspend the machine). I've seen the same behaviour in the battery leds (they pass from 2 leds to 1 when you check). Do you think it's an

Re: clock and hwclock (was: Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved)

2004-12-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:20 AM, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Is clock now deprecated? Can it be removed from powerpc-utils? I don't know if it's deprecated, I can only say that hwclock seems to do the same work (here in mac newworld). luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmin

Re: clock and hwclock (was: Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved)

2004-12-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:18 PM, Joerg Sommer wrote: > > a possible solution could be done starting from this old thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/1999/09/threads.html#00254 > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/1999/10/threads.html#0 > > Interessting, especially that

clock and hwclock (was: Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved)

2004-12-03 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:47 PM, Joerg Sommer wrote: > This script is named hwclock.sh, which is part of util-linux. I think > it's not easy possible to remove hwclock from util-linux or replace it on > ppc by clock. a possible solution could be done starting from this old thread: http://lists.d

Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved

2004-12-01 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:39 AM, peter plessas wrote: > Well, after a boot into OSX and back to debian the time is correct now! I don't think that this is a good_solution(tm), it's better to modify your scripts that load/store the time using /sbin/clock from powerpc-utils instead of hwclock. Ma

Re: PBG4 2.6.9 sound module config

2004-10-27 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:11 PM, Guido Guenther wrote: > It reverts some of the recent changes which broke volume adjustment on > my pbook. hi, i've got an ibook 2.2 with PowerMac Snapper (Dev 24) and i'm getting nearly the same problem. I'm going to try your patch, however i'd like to know if a

mol modules and 2.6.9

2004-10-21 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
mol-modules-source 0.9.70-8 does not compile for 2.6.9, i've attached a little patch that fix the problem. HTH Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit. Linux Registered User # 286841 diff -Naurp src/netdriver/sheep.c src_ORIG/netdriver/sheep.c --- src/netd

cracks on xmms

2004-09-15 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, i've the latest xmms from unstable running on ibook 2.2 . Sound is configured with alsa and oss-emulation. When i play an mp3/ogg/wav with xmms i ear some "cracks". Cracks are more frequent with alsa plugin than with oss plugin. Tuning a few plugin options reduce the cracks, but the don't disap

installing debian on mol

2004-09-08 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, does anyone has installed debian on mol ? I've tried with Branden's instructions (installing debian without using any physical media) and also with the iso of woody-powerpc (not burned). In the first case i've added these pseudofiles: pseudofile:"yaboot" /home/shammash/mol/firstboot/yaboo

Re: libsensors keywest configuration

2004-08-20 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:06 PM, Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: > sensors-detect find successfully ADM1030 device over > uni-n 1 bus, but i cannot find any doc about configuration > of this bus in "sensors.conf". i've found the solution (thanks to lm-sensors guys!):

libsensors keywest configuration

2004-08-17 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i'm trying to configure lm-sensors over an ibook 2.2 . sensors-detect find successfully ADM1030 device over uni-n 1 bus, but i cannot find any doc about configuration of this bus in "sensors.conf". has anyone already configured lm-sensors on such bus? thank's a lot Luca --

hwclock

2004-08-08 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i cannot get working hwclock on my ibook 2.2 with 2.6.7. i've seen some threads in the archives from 1999 to 2003 saying different things: - hwclock doesn't work, try clock form powerpc-utils - clock is obsolete it should be useful have hwclock support - on 2.4 there is a /dev/rtc compat

Re: "Debian Within a Darwin System"

2004-08-04 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:41 AM, Derrik Pates wrote: > making virtualization solutions like VMware not work. this guy has booted opendarwin with vmware, but it has troubles with the network interface: http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/2004-July/004491.html you can find the list of s

bad shading with eterm debianized

2004-07-28 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, i've installed Eterm 0.9.2-8 and the shading works bad: the background is shaded in a bad way fading to blue. then i've tried to recompile eterm 0.9.2 downloaded from eterm.org and now everything is fine, but i haven't understood where the problem is. An "E" guy told me something about incompa

Re: javaplugin mozilla

2004-07-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:25 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I can't get the javaplugin to work with mozilla. > Any hints? read this message and the following thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/11/msg00153.html Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmi

therm_adm103x

2004-07-06 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, i'm successfully controlling my ibook2.2' fan using Cedric Pradalier's patch on kernel 2.6.7 vanilla. Does anybody knows if that patch will become part of the official kernel tree ? TIA Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit. Linux Registered User #

Re: Debian unstable, blackdown j2re1.3 and Mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:29 PM, Ivo Marino wrote: > Any more specific informations regarding this topic? there was a previous discussion, you can find the more interesting message of that thread here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/11/msg00162.html Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Fo