Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hello Sven,
>
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc
> > kernel to
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1
> >
> > And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded (mostly because
> > kernel-source-2.6.11 needs cleaning up a bit yet), i would encourage you to
> > try it out and give me feedback on it.
>
> I gave it a try on my very recent Apple powerbook G4. Information
> about my machine, dmesg output etc. can be found at
> http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/2.6.11-0.1/ . The following things
> did not work:
>
> 1) the trackpad does not work :-(
>
> Using the trackpad has no visible effect, no input arrives at
> /dev/input/mice, the X pointer does not move etc.
Mmm, can you try http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.11 now ? I thought i
fixed this, ah now, it was the thermal detection issue.
> 2) sound does not work
>
> Everything seems fine at first: alsamixer sees controls labelled
> "master", "headphon", "Mix Boos", "PC Speak", "Auto Mut", "Beep".
> Doing "cat something.wav >/dev/audio" or similar takes the
> appropriate amount of time. But no sound is actually played :-(
Mmm. the kernel uses alsa and not oss, make sure that you have the needed
userland stuff for it.
> 3) the "fn" key emits no scan code
>
> I tried "showkey -s" on the console. Pressing "fn" does not result
> in any output.
Mmm, strange, i don't think "fn" is supposed to emit a scancode, not sure
though.
> 4) suspend does not work
>
> I tried the following shell script:
> #!/bin/sh
> rmmod ohci1394
> rmmod eth1394
> rmmod ieee1394
> rmmod hci_usb
> /etc/init.d/hotplug stop
> echo disk > /sys/power/state
> When the final line was executed the machine hung. The cursor on
> the text console was still blinking, but all key presses were
> ignored and I had to do a hard reset.
Known problem i think, please try the -0.2 case, which contains a fix for
this, altough it doesn'y work on my own ibook G3, the fix is powerpbook
tailored, so ...
> The dmesg output contains the following lines which look like error
> messages:
>
> - no idea about this:
>
> Can't get bus-range for /pci@f2000000/cardbus@13, assuming it starts at 0
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0001:10:19.0
Probably can be ignored.
> - graphics seem to work, so maybe the following is harmless?
>
> radeonfb (0000:00:10.0): Invalid ROM signature 303 should be0xaa55
you can ignore this one, your radeon has no x86 bios, i think this is the
reason for this message.
> - the following is known, I think:
>
> adt746x: Thermostat bus: 0, address: 0x2e, limit_adjust: 0, fan_speed: -1
> adt746x: Thermostat failed to read config from bus 0 !
Should be fixed in -0.2, please test.
> - no idea about this:
>
> ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
Mmm, usb does work though.
> - maybe the following is connected to the trackpad problem
>
> input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad] on usb-0001:10:1a.0-2
> HID device not claimed by input or hiddev
> usbhid: probe of 1-2:1.1 failed with error -5
That's the new trackbad problem.
> As far as I can see, all of these problems also occur for a vanilla
> 2.6.11 kernel.
Yep, probably, since i didn't touch any of these.
Thanks for your tests.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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