Re: MOL Login

2004-12-07 Thread Thomas Otto
this happens every time i start up OS X in MOL and enter my username/pass... a window pops up to say unable to log you in at this time, and then it logs me in! is there a way to stop the pop up window as it is clearly in error... Well... me too! 10.2 didn't do this, just 10.3 started showing

Re: Does Airport extreme work with debian? - NO

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Otto
this is my first post on debian-powerpc list. i look up the archives because i'm going to buy a new ibook 12, but i saw that the Airport extreme wireless card doesn't work. is it true? is there a project to make it work with debian? searching with google seems that it's false: i found this

Re: umounting cryptoloop before swsusp / suspend to ram

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Otto
Can anyone share with me how to solve the following problem. I keep some important data on an cryptoloop. But i have to umount it before suspend to ram / swsusp. On i386 i had configured acpi so when i pressed the power button the system umounted cryptoloop and did swsusp. Is this possible on ppc

Re: Which scripts are run on suspend (iBook)?

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Otto
I want to lock my X display with xlock prior to suspending my iBook yet I couldn't find any scripts that are run just before the lid is closed or the powerbutton pressed. you probably want a current version of pbbuttonsd which conflicts with pmud as it provides all the functionality of pmud

Which scripts are run on suspend (iBook)?

2004-08-22 Thread Thomas Otto
Hi! I want to lock my X display with xlock prior to suspending my iBook yet I couldn't find any scripts that are run just before the lid is closed or the powerbutton pressed. /etc/power/{pwrctl-local,*} is only run when an AC adapter is attached or detached yet I couldn'd find anything

Re: hfs+ fs with linux - only ro after some time error

2004-08-15 Thread Thomas Otto
[...] Oh, and after 32 rw mounts, you need to use the hfpmount on it, which will fail but will allow the kernel to mount it. I use 2.6.7. I had a similar problem: with the early 2.6 testing kernels I could write on the hfs+ volume just fine (also with 2.4 benh kernels after the new ardistech

Re: hfs+ fs with linux - only ro after some time error

2004-08-15 Thread Thomas Otto
[...] Oh, and after 32 rw mounts, you need to use the hfpmount on it, which will fail but will allow the kernel to mount it. I use 2.6.7. I had a similar problem: with the early 2.6 testing kernels I could write on the hfs+ volume just fine (also with 2.4 benh kernels after the new ardistech

Poweron timer on iBook G3 (PPC_RTAS?)

2004-05-28 Thread Thomas Otto
Hi! I just noticed OS X allows to set a time at which the laptop automatically turns on, this seems to correlate to the kernel option Support for RTAS (RunTime Abstraction Services) in /proc (PPC_RTAS) [N/y/?] which says [...] if you power off your machine at night but want it running when you

Re: Questions about kernel crypto section

2003-12-30 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a question about the use of the crypto api in new 2.4 kernels. My /home partition is on a cryptoloop made using a 2.4 kernel pre-crypto (2.4.20), patches from kerneli for kernel and util-linux. Now, with new kernel (2.4.23-ben1) I cannot access to this partition. I think this is because

Radeons and VGA-Out? (was: Re: m3mirror problem)

2003-11-28 Thread Thomas Otto
I don't use it myself (my ibook has an M6), but I've seen it work. I have an iBook2 700Mhz with an 16MB M7 Radeon Mobility, is there anything I can do to make use of the VGA-Out, even if it is only X mirroring? -Thomas

Re: 12 G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support

2003-11-19 Thread Thomas Otto
- AirPort Extreme support IIRC this won't happen since Broadcom is refusing to release specs for it :/ (which is why I'll stick to my 700Mhz G3 iBook). See http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/msg00789.html ...maybe write a mail to Apple/Broadcom for some

Re: Sound partly broken until reboot

2003-10-31 Thread Thomas Otto
Any ideas, how to fix a situation like this without rebooting? For soundproblems of this sort I have a little script which just rmmod's and then again modprobe's the kernelmodules dmasound_pmac dmasound_core and soundcore in that order. After that usually everything works again.

Re: cryptopatch for kernel 2.4.21 fails on ibook

2003-10-20 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a kernel (2.4.22 Benh) that works fine except for decrypting. Are you using the kernel sources from Debian, or Ben's tree itself? well i suppose its debian sources, but havent downloaded it myself. just mirrored the whole system from a friend with same hardware. as i understood

Re: cryptopatch for kernel 2.4.21 fails on ibook

2003-10-20 Thread Thomas Otto
Well, the crypto patch doesn't work with 2.4.22 because it is already *in* this Kernel ;-). Have a look in the .config file, at the end you will see several lines CONFIG_CRYPTO[...]. If they aren't there reconfigure your kernel with cryptographic support. -Thomas well actually they are in the

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-14 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a friend who did it but he had to make a FAT partition to share a partition because linux does not write on usf. Is this statement still true? Can macosx r/o on ext2-3? MacOS can't read ext2/ext3. But Linux can read USF UFS, I assume. Linux can read it, see

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a great AmigaONE computer with DebianPPC Sid (unstable) version. Today I have installed, with apt-get all latest updates, but, when the computer reset and inizialize the system, it lockup at this point: Setting Up General Console Font How I can restore my system and correct this

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. ;-) I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll need to repeat *all*

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll need to repeat *all* of the bootargs when you run `setenv', then do not run savenv, go straight to `bootd'. Thanks for the clarification, Thomas. Erm - did I miss the irony/sarcasm tag here ;-) ? No sarcasm intended, the instruction was for the OP

Re: Voice-over-IP solutions for woody?

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas Otto
I'm looking for a usable/stable (but I don't mind if it's simple, it's only for casual 1-to-1 talks with another debian person) net phone solution that I can run without having to upgrade to testing or unstable. Has anyone already found this? (I could probably also live with a gnome 2

Re: dma_sound problems on 12 pbook

2003-08-23 Thread Thomas Otto
That is expected since dmasound doesn't support recording. You'll have to wait for 2.6 with alsa - see some older threat here. You mean the sound input on Powerbooks G4 / iBooks will work?? :- Cl! quote msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED] digger vermont wrote: On the alsa mailing list I've

Re: dma_sound problems on 12 pbook

2003-08-22 Thread Thomas Otto
While it usually plays sound fine the first time I open the device I get ENXIO or EBUSY back from /dev/dsp when trying to read or write from the device afterwards. Kernel is 2.4.21-ben2. Any ideas? Regards, Thats a common Linux problem since the /dev/dsp (IIRC digital sound port) device can

Re: dma_sound problems on 12 pbook

2003-08-22 Thread Thomas Otto
When the old process is still arround try finding and killing it via 'fuser /dev/dsp' No, that's not the problem. I double checked that, e.g.: ~$ fuser /dev/dsp ~$ cat /dev/dsp cat: /dev/dsp: No such device or address That is expected since dmasound doesn't support recording. You'll have to

Re: Why is my ibook getting so hot ?

2003-08-18 Thread Thomas Otto
I'll test the laptop patch. But it's very big and most probably it will not apply agains a recent ben-kernel. Hehe, it already is in then latest 2.4.21-benh2 kernel ;-). You should have a /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode file. Read kernel-dir/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt (wc -l only 72!) for

Re: lcd resolution scaling?

2003-08-16 Thread Thomas Otto
Do ibook kernels support scaling of other resolutions to a laptop's native res? I understand the rage mobility can do this with little or no (in later revisions?) performance loss, and it would solve some issues nicely, such as mol support, hard-coded games, etc. Try Ctrl Alt +/- which will

Re: Cube as a firewall/router - Comments anyone?

2003-08-12 Thread Thomas Otto
With a FW port at my Mac and my x86 Audigy soundcard I could try this, yet FW cables quite expensive. I don't know about your whereabouts, but in the Netherlands FireWire cables are expensive too. A local shop here in germany wanted 15 for a 3m calbe. I think i could by 30m of Ethernet

Re: Cube as a firewall/router - Comments anyone?

2003-08-11 Thread Thomas Otto
How about adding an extra ethernet connection to the cube? Possible? You can't add an internal one, but a USB one should be OK for a typical cable or DSL modem link. Why not use use IP over FireWire? Hehe, nice Idea. Though IIRC despite the RFC IP over FW is not yet completely implemented

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-11 Thread Thomas Otto
I can only give you some hints nontheless: Try to autogenerate a new XF86Config-4 via xf86config (this worked perfecty fine for me, ATI Radeon on an ibook) 4) the ATI card I believe is a NexusGA, because it matches specs on the ATI website. But the chip on it says ATI Rage 128 3D

Re: DualHead-hack for iBook breaks radeonfb

2003-08-10 Thread Thomas Otto
This http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/adb-31.07.03-000/ (in German) also didn't help? Seems like the 3rd Comment in the description hints at that. I wonder if I should try this hack as well on my 700Mhz Radeon M7 iBook... I never got the VGA-Out working though (not that I tried really

Re: keyboard problem with 266MHz iMac

2003-08-08 Thread Thomas Otto
The modifier keys don't work for my old iMac /w 266MHz G3 CPU. After fixing the problems with the modelines to get xfree86 running and changing XkbLayout to de_DE to get german umlauts, I don't know how to get chars like @{}[]|~\ hidden somewhere on the third keyboard level. With MacOS I

Re: X startup... (was Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys)

2003-07-31 Thread Thomas Otto
[ /etc/X11/Xsession.d + ~/.xsession not working ] See Debian bug 195845 for a patch to fix this problem. It shows up if you're using KDM or GDM and selecting a specific session manager (as opposed to the default). Thanks for the hint. Everything is working as expected now, I thought my

Re: Wiping out Mac OS X and Mac OS 9

2003-07-30 Thread Thomas Otto
I suppose I can delete hda13 but I would like to clean things a bit. Do I still need Apple_Driver partition ? And Apple_Patches ? IIRC, all you need (other than your linux partitions) is the small Apple_Bootstrap partition. You should be able to get rid of the rest of the Apple_* partitions

X startup... (was Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys)

2003-07-30 Thread Thomas Otto
Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap which i load when I login. It seems everybody does that, instead of fixing the X keymaps... I'm no better myself. :) But where *is* this keymap that will be read at the start of an X session on Debian 3.0. r1 /testing?

Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys

2003-07-27 Thread Thomas Otto
I basicly googled my way to freedom, I haven't even found a table with a complete desciption of all xmodmap entrys, e.g. that | is bar. IIRC the YDL pages also have some docs about this. Ah, here they are, right under my nose: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h, just remove the XK_ from the

Re: ibook2

2003-07-26 Thread Thomas Otto
Problem 1: I can't record anything with my soundcard. Playing is no problem. I checked and found out that a call open(/dev/dsp, O_RDONLY); fails, but open(/dev/dsp, O_WRONLY); succeeds. Some programs (like audacity) will therefore leave my soundcard in a bad state: I am not able to play

Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys

2003-07-26 Thread Thomas Otto
I'm missing the bar sign, the @ sign (I had to paste this one from the address in the header), bracketleft, bracketright, EuroSign and I don't know what else on the keyboard on X. Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap which i load when I login. I also had to

Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys

2003-07-26 Thread Thomas Otto
I know I could simply do something like: cd /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz cp mac-usb-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz /etc/console/boottime.gz No! The mac- keymap has includes whereas the boottime keymaps must be a single file. There is a command to resolve all the dependencys and put the

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas Otto
Is anybody running reiserfs on an iBook? Opinions? Comments? Gotchas? Shouldn't be a problem of the hardware but rather of the kernel, reiserfsutils etc installed. Yet on problem could be the following with noflushd (cp from noflushd.sf.net): - Reiserfs journaling bypasses the kernel's

Re: system clock runs too fast on pb12

2003-05-31 Thread Thomas Otto
I now experienced that the system clock of my PowerBook 12 runs too fast. I'm adjusting it nearly once an hour using ntpdate now and it seems to change about +1m per hour. I hope this isn't a hardware problem. No, the kernel is making up for the hardware clock which he *thinks* is going 1m per