Re: radeon graphic speed regression 2.4 - 2.6 test7 benh

2003-10-30 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: It is not synthetic. It feels really sluggish in the shell compared to 2.4... Also I have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled and now I do wonder that I did not yet see a random crash - hmmhhh well except for a try to get cryptoloop working.

libns{jpg,gif,mng,png} and mozilla-browser in sid

2003-10-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey all, I just updated galeon yesterday and suddenly the regxpcom call in the postinstall script for mozilla-browser was crashing due to undefined symbols in four old libraries in /usr/lib/mozilla/components. dpkg -S shows that they don't belong to any package, so I moved them out of the way,

old libXrender blocks galeon2

2003-10-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All, I just had a major pain in the ass when I upgraded to galeon2. I was getting undefined symbol errors for libXft.so.2: /usr/lib/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined symbol: XRenderQuerySubpixelOrder The problem was a set of old cruft links in

Re: radeon graphic speed regression 2.4 - 2.6 test7 benh

2003-10-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:20, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: It is not synthetic. It feels really sluggish in the shell compared to 2.4... Also I have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled and now I do wonder that I did not yet see a random crash -

Re: Installing Debian on the new Tibook

2003-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:37:51PM -0800, Bryan Rowe wrote: I am trying to install Debian on the new 15in TiPowerbook. I found your article on installing on an iBook by Branden Robinson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/ and I followed it to the exactly for doing a dual boot between

Mach64Gx not working on pmac 9500 (Was : tdfx multiple voodoo cards : supposed to work ? + Mach64Gx question.)

2003-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
Ok. Chris, can you have a look at this, and see if can provide this information, by using a serial console, or maybe blindly typing : # dmesg somplace and also by visual confirmation ? Friendly, Sven Luther On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:38:45AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct

Re: new ibook 4

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Leroy
I would just like to know if anyone has yet installed Debian on the new ibook 4. If so...we there any problems or difficulties? I am interested in buying the same...and so want to be sure against problems I may face. I'm very tempted too... From what I see there may be problems with a) the

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-30 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El jue, 30-10-2003 a las 04:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:20, Michael Schmitz wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:59:11PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: although it can't handle brightness at the moment. Patch is against 2.4.22-ben2. A slightly updated

Re: new ibook 4

2003-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:53:28AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: I would just like to know if anyone has yet installed Debian on the new ibook 4. If so...we there any problems or difficulties? I am interested in buying the same...and so want to be sure against problems I may face. I'm

evolution and ical

2003-10-30 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Hello, What is the good solution to have some people exchange their calendars when they use iCal or Evolution ? Is there any free solution ? -- Jean-Christophe Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Symétrie

Re: evolution and ical

2003-10-30 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:19, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: Hello, What is the good solution to have some people exchange their calendars when they use iCal or Evolution ? Is there any free solution ? there is webical... so far all one can do is copy the calendar.ics file manually to a site

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Russell Hires wrote: I did all three lines...same result...I can't see the console text... Russell On Monday 27 October 2003 04:08 am, Michael Schmitz wrote: read .fb_fillrect = NULL;, save, recompile. Should I do this for all the items in the struct? Or just

changes to Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC - Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
in 3.5 Meeting Minimum Hardware Requirements it is stated that: Recommended Minimum System Requirements +--+ |Install Type| RAM | Hard Drive | |+--+--|

Re: new ibook 4

2003-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:17:43PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: The 9200 is nothing more than an AGP 8x 9000, it should work the same for XFree86/fbdve/DRI, with maybe only changing the chipid or something such, or using more modern drivers (the Michael Daenzer packages for example). Do

Re: Installing Debian on the new Tibook

2003-10-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:01:53AM -0800, Bryan Rowe wrote: Thanks for replying Sven, when I look at /proc/pci this is what I see that would relate to the hd. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Host bridge: PCI device 106b:0034 (Apple Computer Inc.) (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=16

Re: Installing Debian on the new Tibook

2003-10-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:01:53AM -0800, Bryan Rowe wrote: when I look at /proc/pci this is what I see that would relate to the hd. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Host bridge: PCI device 106b:0034 (Apple Computer Inc.) (rev 0). Master Capable.

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
Should I do this for all the items in the struct? Or just the one line? No, for all three lines: I specifically mentioned fillrect, copyarea and imageblit. Shouldn't you fill in references to cfb_*() routines instead of NULL pointers? Possible. I'm not sure which one I tried. I

Re: Powerbook G4: Linux does not boot again

2003-10-30 Thread Luca Padovani
Thanks Georg, On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Georg Koss wrote: I had the same problem - an up-to-date kernel solved it ;) ok, but still I don't understand how a perfectly working installation stopped working suddenly... and BTW, how can I upgrade to a new kernel given that when I boot with the old

Re: changes to Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC - Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
My opinion is that 128mb of RAM should be the recommended minimum for a desktop. My experience is that 64 MB of RAM is definitely sufficient. I've only recently upgraded from 64 to 128 MB and about the only applications that behave differently are gimp and mol (and I was doing some real

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:46:12PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: If any of you has a MacOS 9 capable machine with flat panel, I want to see if we can get the actual finer backlight control to work. With MacOS That'd be pretty cool. NVidia currently doesn't provide any information on

Re: Powerbook G4: Linux does not boot again

2003-10-30 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again Luca, On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:44:49PM +0100, Luca Padovani wrote: ok, but still I don't understand how a perfectly working installation stopped working suddenly... so did I ... =8-(( and BTW, how can I upgrade to a new kernel given that when I boot with the old kernel

Re: OT - worm problem - THX

2003-10-30 Thread Georg Koss
Hello Christophe, you saved the day THX THX : On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:46:11PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: Concerning swen, I use the following procmail rules: . which are simples and very effectives. Indeed they are!!! As I have to ISDN-download via POP3 I found

Re: 2.6.0-test7 (benh) cpufreq problem?

2003-10-30 Thread Mich Lanners
On 30 Oct, this message from Georg Koss echoed through cyberspace: 3.) That plan B video stuff has to be disabled. Why do you want to use PlanB on your PowerBook? That driver is for old PCI macs with a video input. And yes, as you found out, it doesn't work (it doesn't even compile) on

Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12 pbook

2003-10-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 20:32, Michael Schmitz wrote: Thanks, I'll try that on the flat panel iMac, and work it into 2.6.0 as well. Worked fine in 2.4, dies horribly in 2.6 BTW. Still tracking it down. If any of you has a MacOS 9 capable machine with flat panel, I want to see if we

Re: 2.6.0-test7 (benh) cpufreq problem?

2003-10-30 Thread Georg Koss
Hi Michel, On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:54:22PM +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: No problem; I think my reply was a bit more agresive than I intended. Sorry 'bout that :-) It's me who has to apologize missing know-how about that stuff and indeed, I didn't feel you hit me - I'm learning lots from