Re: iBook issues

I forgot to CC'd to linuxppc-dev. Here it is for the records.

summary:
gmac is ok
power management is a noop
atyfb/X11 solved

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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Hi Ben,

gmac now works well again on my iBook!

There are still three issues remaining:
- the iBook doesn't power off on system halt (the ancient SuSE kernel did)

Which kernel ? The one on the web page ?

Yes, the one on your web page (vmlinux-2.2.17pre9-ben1). SuSE's
2.2.13-patched
turned it off.

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(- repeatedly pressing brightness controls do no longer erase the nvram and
power off, solved )

My kernel should actually handle brightness (increase and decrease it)
provided that you enable atyfb in the kernel.

It doesn't work for me (pressing these keys are a no-op, which is
actually better
than powering off).
I used your kernel with 'append="adb_buttons=52,76"'. Atyfb was active
at that
time.

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- 2.4test1-ac21 now tells me "IDE-DMA check !" and fails to mount root
(perhaps
a missing idebus=?)

Where are some issues with 2.4, I'm working on them.

If I understand this sentence right you know about it and are working on
it.

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Using it for data exchange is a good idea. But I heard about MacOS unblessing
the boot folder. I thought this was my problem.

Well, I personally never bless it :) I directly configure OF to load a
boot script on this partition that will, depending on me pressing the
space bar or not, boot either MacOS or yaboot (using hard-coded path, so
I don't depend on blessing).

Good idea. Should make it's way into the yaboot-FAQ since you don't need
to
repartition.

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Somewhat working. It is blastingly fast compared to ofonly, but my X server
(SuSE beta) isn't able to use it correctly. A strange thing (screen turns
white,
some black dots appear (like noise) and stay, if you press a key the screen
looks garbled (wrong colors, dots not in a row) but it doesn't look like
a sync
problem and I specify Mode "default" of course. I will further dive into it
(downloaded fbset & fbutil) and even try 4.0.1 (which I plan anyway).

I found it. It looks like the two accelerations step on each others
feet. If you
disable acceleration on your text consoles, X works right. This might
already
have been fixed (SuSE's beta X Server is of Aug'99).
And the fact that the virtual resolution is 800 5222 might make it
impossible to
find your login window (which is centered) 8-o

Apart from that I didn't succeed to access the mouse. I know usb-hid
maps it
somewhere, but where?

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What I think is even more important: lack of HFS[+] is a showstopper on

PPC! I

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have no free ressources to help but it'll kill Linux's reputation in the Mac
world if not solved within a few months.

Some people are working on it. I don't know the status.

Good to hear, seeing 'my Mac partition has been destroyed' by casual
Linux users on this list gives me shivers. This often hides a personal
tragedy.

Christof

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