Albook 15 status page...

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Herzberg, GNOME Deutschland
Hi, some weeks ago I set up a small page to become a support status page for the 15 Albook. Unfortunately I'm not going to have much time the next weeks to finish these pages. If there are any Albook 15 users here who'd like to contribute to this small documentation place, please send me some

Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

2004-01-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Attached file is current version of port swsusp to ppc, STILL can not works, Benjamin, gave me some comments. I has add one files swsusp2-asm.S. The save/restore processor state base on pmac_sleep.S. The copybackup is copy from gcc generate assmeble. Now the suspend has no problem,

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Colin Leroy
Interesting. Is our limit too low or is the fan unable to cool it down ? In the later case, we probably want to switch to low speed (at least) when we go over a first limit... Maybe. Yesterday's patch seems to work (with limit to 60°C), though... It sets the CPU limit to 60°C. Here's another

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-23 Thread Colin Leroy
The attached patch makes pmud function again for me (tested with -d and with Batmon). (sending it to apmud.sf.net's tracker). -- Colin

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Eric . Lemoine
And at last, if you mean the ndiswrapper project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ ), this will be a hack. In fact, windows drivers are necessary. And Windows is for x86 in this case. Porting this under powerpc architecture will (imho) be a bit problematic. I've been wondering

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
Sure, that's understood. You have to be careful to not let it go to sleep (hacking an -EBUSY return code in the sleep ioctl code for your kernel, for instance). Well I tried that (works correctly: nothing happens on `snooze -f` except a Devices rejected sleep log from the kernel). As it

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-23 Thread Colin Leroy
What version of pmud are you using, and from what source? 1.10.1-r2 from Gentoo. The patch you sent has been included in the Debian package since 0.10-3 (bug #167836) a year ago ... Ok, I'll bug gentoo's pmud maintainer then :) and I believe I sent it to the apmud patch tracker as well.

Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-23 Thread nikp
Hi Thorsten and Sven. Just to complete the draw, right now my situation is this one. On my machine with the kernel 2.4.24 compiled with the config that i given to you. I've got on disk0 a primary partition sda2 formatted ext3 with the entire os later i,ve created other primary partitions sda4 and

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-23 Thread Colin Leroy
Ok, I'll bug gentoo's pmud maintainer then :) FYI, here it is. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39132 -- Colin

Re: what distribution?

2004-01-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Martin Kuball writes: I'v recently started to mix some packages from testing into my woody installation. Having encountered no problems so far I would like to go for more. [...] Should I go all the way to unstable or I run stable on most of the machines I take care of. If for some

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
What version of pmud are you using, and from what source? 1.10.1-r2 from Gentoo. I thought they were somewhat Debian backgrounded. Must've been a rumor. and I believe I sent it to the apmud patch tracker as well. Didn't see it :) Entirely possible the sf patch tracker lost it, or didn't

Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

2004-01-23 Thread Hugang
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:12:53 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is at least one reason I think your code cannot work: When resuming, you are basically blowing up the MMU hash table and kernel page tables when copying the pages. I'm hacking on an implementation of

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
The battery of my PowerBook G4 got too low and the machine was put into sleep. I closed the lid, changed the battery, but when I reopened the lid, I noticed that the PowerBook was in fact off. And when I switched it on (around 21:00), the clock was set back to 1904-01-01. Here's a

Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-23 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi, * nikp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-23 09:52]: | Just to complete the draw, right now my situation is this one. | On my machine with the kernel 2.4.24 compiled with the config that i | given to you. | I've got on disk0 a primary partition sda2 formatted ext3 with the | entire os later i,ve

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-23 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:32:46AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I've had the same happen on occasion, and won't of course blame pmud for it :-) Seriously, what seems to happen is the battery is lying about how much charge is left, and runs out during sleep. Just for the record, I didn't look

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Federico Gamio a écrit : El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Well, not in my case, I use VLC, and I've already instaled xine, and when I want to see a fullscreen avi, my radeon driver can't show all the information... xine works better than VLC with my

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 22:35, Guido Guenther wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:32:46AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I've had the same happen on occasion, and won't of course blame pmud for it :-) Seriously, what seems to happen is the battery is lying about how much charge is left, and runs

Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:52:32AM -0800, nikp wrote: Hi Thorsten and Sven. Just to complete the draw, right now my situation is this one. On my machine with the kernel 2.4.24 compiled with the config that i given to you. I've got on disk0 a primary partition sda2 formatted ext3 with the

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: Sven Luther said: Well, does yaboot work on all chrps ? I have had info from Geert that he had trouble with yaboot on his longtrail. It should be possible, depends on the problem he encountered of course... My version of Open Firmware (from

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:26:28AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And at last, if you mean the ndiswrapper project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ ), this will be a hack. In fact, windows drivers are necessary. And Windows is for x86 in this case. Porting this under

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:12:35AM -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:27, Jaonary Rabarisoa escribió: Hi, I see that you almost managed to run debian perfectly in you albook 15''. So, I would ask to you some tips and advice because there are several things that

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Leigh Brown
Geert Uytterhoeven said: My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct settings for this client program' (or something like that), until I disconnected the disk and it couldn't find the boot loader

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 23:48, Michael Schmitz wrote: Well, this is different. The kernel continuously talks to the PMU. It happens asynchronously at interrupt time. If for some reason, that communication is stopped in the middle of a message transmission, the PMU times out and shuts the

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
Well, this is different. The kernel continuously talks to the PMU. It happens asynchronously at interrupt time. If for some reason, that communication is stopped in the middle of a message transmission, the PMU times out and shuts the machine down, losing the time (I suspect it resets

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:28:45PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: Sven Luther said: Well, does yaboot work on all chrps ? I have had info from Geert that he had trouble with yaboot on his longtrail. It should be possible, depends on the

Re: Albook 15 status page...

2004-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Sven Herzberg, GNOME Deutschland a écrit : Hi, some weeks ago I set up a small page to become a support status page for the 15 Albook. Very good idea Unfortunately I'm not going to have much time the next weeks to finish these pages. We all have the same problem... If there

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Colin Leroy
Interesting enough, when I have my endless loops run longer the machine crashes. One time it crashed after about 10 minutes, one time after half an hour of full fan speed. the first time the heating rate was quite fast. The temperature reached 60°C and stayed there till the crash. The second

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
I've had the same happen on occasion, and won't of course blame pmud for it :-) Seriously, what seems to happen is the battery is lying about how much charge is left, and runs out during sleep. This may be the cause, as I got the message after less than 2 hours, though the battery usually

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:06:21AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: Interesting. Is our limit too low or is the fan unable to cool it down ? In the later case, we probably want to switch to low speed (at least) when we go over a first limit... Maybe. Yesterday's patch seems to work (with limit

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven said: My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct settings for this client program' (or something like that), until I disconnected the

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Marco Giordani
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:25:14PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: Do you mean it did crash with the last patch (or not?) ? No crash for me with latest patch but, as I said, under macosx fan starts around 62 degrees. Maybe 50° is too low: it's the temperature of my cpu under normal usage (765MHz and

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Marco Giordani
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:21:07PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: it down ? In the later case, we probably want to switch to low speed (at least) when we go over a first limit... I think the reducing of the cpu clock have to be done only on emergencies: when the temperature is over an

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Do you mean it did crash with the last patch (or not?) ? Yup! If yes, I'll put the limits quite high on the chip (Say 65°C), and start the fan as it is now (Slow at 50, fast at 58). That ist what I'd suggest though I don't understand the underlying mechanism. Wolfi

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:24:16PM -, Leigh Brown wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven said: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven said: My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Interesting enough, when I have my endless loops run longer the machine crashes. One time it crashed after about 10 minutes, one time after half an hour of full fan speed. the first time the heating rate was quite fast. The temperature reached 60°C and stayed there till the crash. The

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Federico Gamio
El vie, 23-01-2004 a las 09:19, Sven Luther escribió: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:12:35AM -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:27, Jaonary Rabarisoa escribió: Hi, I see that you almost managed to run debian perfectly in you albook 15''. So, I would ask to you

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Federico Gamio
El vie, 23-01-2004 a las 08:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, Federico Gamio a écrit : El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Well, not in my case, I use VLC, and I've already instaled xine, and when I want to see a fullscreen avi, my radeon driver can't

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:24, Federico Gamio wrote: El vie, 23-01-2004 a las 08:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi: deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ Right now I am using fbdev and XFree86-4.3.0-0pre1.5. My question is, what packages I need to get to use radeon instead of

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:10:22PM -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: El vie, 23-01-2004 a las 09:19, Sven Luther escribió: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:12:35AM -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:27, Jaonary Rabarisoa escribió: Hi, I see that you almost managed to run

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Federico Gamio
El vie, 23-01-2004 a las 12:20, Sven Luther escribió: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:10:22PM -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: El vie, 23-01-2004 a las 09:19, Sven Luther escribió: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:12:35AM -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:27, Jaonary Rabarisoa

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Marco Giordani
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:24:02PM +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote: (6700), reaching 59°C switches to 8700. If the cpu cools down again the fan switches to 6700 at 55°C and of at 48°C. My /sys/devices/temperatures/fan_speed never reaches so high values. The upper bound seems to be 2800. What's

Re: Albook 15 status page...

2004-01-23 Thread Greg Gilbert
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: And, *when* it will work : MOL and albook This fantastic software works perfectly -not from Debian packages, only from sources- with my ibook, but don't even compile with my albook. Mol is working out of the debian packages for me on

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Colin Leroy
My /sys/devices/temperatures/fan_speed never reaches so high values. The upper bound seems to be 2800. What's the difference? the powerbook model perhaps. Try to set limit_decrease=10 fan_speed=255 to see the maximum... Anyway i'm not sure this indicates properly RPM speed, I did quickly the

Defunct problems

2004-01-23 Thread Pierre N
Hi, I'm having some strange behaviour lately. Gkrellmd and evolution processes keep staying defunct, the number of processes grows and, since I'm using Bastille with 150 processes max, prevent me from starting anything. I have to quit something (usually epiphany), start to do some killall, and

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Marco Giordani
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:21:43PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: the powerbook model perhaps. Try to set limit_decrease=10 fan_speed=255 to see the maximum... Ok. On my Albook 15 1.25GHz: fan_speed=128 returns 2070 fan_speed=255 returns 2800 Bye, Marco -- Marco Giordani [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-23 Thread Jeffery von Ronne
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:35:18PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: Just for the record, I didn't look into this further: I had the clock reset to 1904 after hitting Magic-Sysrq+M (showMem) where the machine simply powered off and when hitting Magic-Syrrq+B (reboot). Also for the record: the

a couple questions about debian woody on a powerbook g3

2004-01-23 Thread dylan
Hi everyone, i have recently installed debian stable on my powerbook g3 (which has a 500mhz g4 in it, so technically it is no longer a g3). the kernel is 2.4.23 custom compiled from the benh tree. 1. i am noticing some strange entries in syslog: - modprobe: modprobe: Can't

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Utilisateur Debian
Thanks for the tips. Debian works better now in my powerbook. I built a new kernel using your config file and it seems to work fine. For the sound, I hear some thing when I log into kde but when I try to listen a music from a cd there is nothing :-(

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:34:34PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:24, Federico Gamio wrote: El vie, 23-01-2004 a las 08:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ Right now I am using fbdev and XFree86-4.3.0-0pre1.5.

Re: Xine dying on me :-(

2004-01-23 Thread Debian User
The problem seems to be linked to the LANG environment variable (type 'env | grep LANG' to see the one you have setup). When I run gnome with french language (fr_FR-ISO-), xine doesn't start with the error : xiTK DIE: create_labelofbutton()@121: xitk_font_load_font() failed. Exiting But

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Marco Giordani
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:12:57PM +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote: BTW, Marco how did you get the cpu temperure underr MacOSX. This sounds like a stupid question, I know, but since I use it that rarely... This is the first software that I have found: (Google helped me ;-)

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:07:25AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Interesting enough, when I have my endless loops run longer the machine crashes. One time it crashed after about 10 minutes, one time after half an hour of full fan speed. the first time the heating rate was

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:45:09PM +0100, Marco Giordani wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:21:43PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: the powerbook model perhaps. Try to set limit_decrease=10 fan_speed=255 to see the maximum... Ok. On my Albook 15 1.25GHz: fan_speed=128 returns 2070

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 19:13, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:34:34PM +0100, Michel Dnzer wrote: drm-trunk-modules-src and xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk are useless for you because the DRI doesn't support your graphics chip yet, so just get xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk. Do you

Re: Defunct problems

2004-01-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 18:40, Pierre N wrote: I'm having some strange behaviour lately. Gkrellmd and evolution processes keep staying defunct, the number of processes grows and, since I'm using Bastille with 150 processes max, prevent me from starting anything. I have to quit something