Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-05-27 Thread Michael Cree
On 27/05/2006, at 10:05 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: Just a followup on this thread: can't seem to get the ALSA snd- es18xx driver to work, so I'm going to try the old OSS sb driver. Progress report to follow... Yes, I have also been having problems getting the ALSA sound driver working under a

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-05-28 Thread Michael Cree
On 29/05/2006, at 2:46 AM, Tyson Whitehead wrote: On Sun May 28 2006 01:51, Michael Cree wrote: I don't get any sound out of the system at all. Running one of the alsa sound test programs (speaker-test) produces no sound, and eventually the kernel starts barfing error messages Bad page state

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 29/05/2006, at 2:46 AM, Tyson Whitehead wrote: I don't get any sound out of the system at all. Running one of the alsa sound test programs (speaker-test) produces no sound, and eventually the kernel starts barfing error messages Bad page state with much unilluminating hex numbers (is this an

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Cree
On 6/06/2006, at 12:46 AM, Tyson Whitehead wrote: On Sun June 4 2006 22:07, Bob Tracy wrote: cards: 0 [ES1888 ]: ES1888 - ESS AudioDrive ES1888 ESS AudioDrive ES1888 at 0x220, irq 5, dma1 1, dma2 5 On both my XP1000 and the PWS600au I have an ES1887 reported

Re: Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Cree
From: Bob McElrath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't seem to reproduce the problem on 2.6.15. 0/0 = nan 1/0 = inf 9.99989e-321/2 = 4.4e-321 On 20/06/2006, at 8:57 AM, Donsbach, Jeff wrote: Fwiw, I get the exact same results as Bob on an EV56 (miata) running a 2.6.15 kernel. Gcc version

Re: Kernel USB regression on XP1000

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Cree
Hi It seems that USB for the ohci_hcd for an XP1000 which was supported at around 2.6.6 is no longer supported. I just get : ohci_hcd :00:07.3: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ. 2.6.18 generic kernel, any ideas? I am running 2.6.18 generic kernel on an

Re: Xorg 7 fixed on alpha

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Cree
On 8/01/2007, at 5:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm happy to report that after quite a bit of hunting, bug #392500 is fixed in xorg-server 2:1.1.1-14 in incoming. Nice. I've finally got around to trying it out. A PWS600AU with its original DEC supplied video card that uses the tga2

Re: Xorg 7 fixed on alpha

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Cree
On 25/01/2007, at 10:42 AM, Jay Estabrook wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:46:03AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: 1) Are there known issues with the tga2 driver/cards and xorg 7.1 ? Well, yes; there's no TGA driver module! It was never ported to the modularized driver scheme in Xorg 7.x

Re: Xorg 7 fixed on alpha

2007-01-25 Thread Michael Cree
On 26/01/2007, at 4:33 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: Michael Cree wrote: I've finally got around to trying it out. A PWS600AU with its original DEC supplied video card that uses the tga2 driver. (...) 1) Are there known issues with the tga2 driver/cards and xorg 7.1 ? (3) You've only got 8 bits

Re: Changing video cards in alphaworkstations

2007-03-10 Thread Michael Cree
On 3/02/2007, at 2:45 AM, Jay Estabrook wrote: Karl Goetz wrote: Could i take any PCI video card and put it in a Digital Workstation 600AU? You don't have to pull a card from another AlphaStation; there are a number of PCI VGA cards that should work in that box. First thing to remember,

testing X crashes and other problems

2007-07-30 Thread Michael Cree
(LANG, LANGUAGE, LOCPATH) and put more entries into the file (including making sure one for en_US) in /etc/ locale.gen. But nothing seems to break the impasse. Suggestions? Cheers Michael Cree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: glibc: floor() is giving incorrect results on alpha architecture

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Cree
Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: DBL_MANT_DIG = 53 9007199254740991.00 9007199254740991.00 10:14 pts/10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp 8 uname -a Linux vinci 2.6.23-rc8-rt2x00-gc31d1777-dirty #1 Wed Oct 3 11:44:23 MSD 2007 alpha GNU/Linux Interesting. On my XP1000 (ev67), self compiled kernel

Re: Alpha 4100 rawhide with smp kernel 2.6.18.8 WORKING

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 4/03/2008, at 11:03 PM, Daniel Franganillo wrote: I have one Rawhide 4000 running since...dont know :P But i had to stick to a kernel from the 2.4 branch because the Qlogic ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI gave us a lot of trouble (panics and disk errors) with the 2.6 branch. A couple of years

M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card causing crash on Alpha

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Cree
I recently installed a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card into DEC/Compaq Alpha XP1000, and it is causing crashes and complete lock ups of the computer when I attempt to play sound through the sound card. Since this is my main computer I shifted the card to a DEC Alpha PWS500au and it causes

Re: [alsa-devel] M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card causing crash on Alpha

2008-03-06 Thread Michael Cree
On 6/03/2008, at 11:18 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:14:23 +1300, Michael Cree wrote: I recently installed a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card into DEC/ Compaq Alpha XP1000, and it is causing crashes and complete lock ups of the computer when I attempt to play sound through

Re: [alsa-devel] M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card causing crash on Alpha

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Cree
On 6/03/2008, at 11:18 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:14:23 +1300, Michael Cree wrote: I recently installed a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card into DEC/ Compaq Alpha XP1000, and it is causing crashes and complete lock ups of the computer when I attempt to play sound through

Re: etch -- lenny upgrade report on Alpha platform

2008-10-05 Thread Michael Cree
Bother, meant to reply to list. Trying again. Jay Estabrook wrote: OK, here are the patches I mentioned, plus one. You may already have some, or may not need some, but for completeness: 1. dbus-alpha-unaligned.patch force gcc to generate proper code; it normally assumes

Re: etch -- lenny upgrade report on Alpha platform

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Cree
On 5/10/2008, at 6:50 PM, Michael Cree wrote: Jay Estabrook wrote: OK, here are the patches I mentioned, plus one. You may already have some, or may not need some, but for completeness: 1. dbus-alpha-unaligned.patch force gcc to generate proper code; it normally assumes

Re: etch -- lenny upgrade report on Alpha platform

2008-10-16 Thread Michael Cree
Bob Tracy wrote: Someone asked me why I don't try iceweasel. I have... Version 3.0.1-1 bombs consistently with an illegal instruction, Yes, I have the same problem. Iceweasel 3.0.1-1 crashes on invocation. I see a similar problem was reported for x64, Debian bug #492488, so I added a

Re: firefox-3.0.3 working on alphaev56

2008-10-20 Thread Michael Cree
Bob Tracy wrote: After a fashion, anyway... The .mozconfig file is . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig mk_add_options [EMAIL PROTECTED]@/firefox_obj ac_add_options --disable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-debug ac_add_options --disable-tests By gosh, your right. Adding in --no-relax to

Re: Iceweasel fully working again with xulrunner-1.9.0.4-1 upgrade

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Cree
Gianluca Bonetti wrote: Someone reported that iceweasel wasn't working any more on Alpha. [...] Today I noticed that a new relase of xulrunner is available in unstable so I downloaded and installed on etch by hand. It works like a charm, again. It's now come through to testing. After

Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Cree
Oliver Falk wrote: Matt Turner wrote: The State of Alpha Linux We're all subscribed to this list because we use a dying platform. You think it's dying? :-P Way back, on the day that I heard that Compaq had bought DEC, I knew in my heart that the beginning of the end had arrived for Alpha.

Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Cree
Uwe Schindler wrote: I have been running an Alpha XP1000 at home for the last three or four years (ever since it was discarded by my workplace) and it has served me well and has done all that I asked of it (a multimedia machine with a PVR card for recording analague television and playback of

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-22 Thread Michael Cree
Steve Langasek wrote: Also unsurprisingly (to me, given my observations that had led to the post in the first place), no one else has yet stepped up to be an alpha porter for squeeze. What is involved in this job? What is the time commitment? What is the needed experience? Up to now I

Re: AlphaLinux Wiki: Patches page created

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Cree
Matt Turner wrote: I've finally created a patches page on the wiki, http://alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php/Patches Good idea. I've applied the futex patches against a 2.6.29.1 kernel and have it running. Any particular thing I should be doing or observing to give these patches a good

Re: squeeze: graphical environment broken

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Cree
Bob Tracy wrote: Just thought I'd see if anyone else was experiencing severe brokenness with an up-to-date squeeze on Alpha. Yes, I had also noted the gnome-settings-daemon problem. I gave up on my Squeeze partition a couple of weeks or so ago, 'cause I got sick of the awful default

Re: squeeze: graphical environment broken

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Cree
On 24/06/2009, at 1:19 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:19:26PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: BTW, to run the latest Xserver on Alpha one must compile their own 2.6.30 kernel (or patch a 2.6.29 kernel). The 2.6.30 kernel doesn't seem to have propagated to Alpha on Debian

Re: Strange QLA1040 firmaware load error with 2.6.30 from testing

2009-08-22 Thread Michael Cree
Uwe Schindler wrote: After upgrading to linux-image-2.6.30-alpha-generic I get the following trace in the kernel log. The qlogic firmware package is installed, as initramfs complained about missing bin files. The driver loads and the system works as expected, all disks are reported: [

Re: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Cree
On 1/09/2009, at 12:42 PM, Matt Turner wrote: I just received the attached email from the xorg-devel list. X.Org 7.5 (xserver-1.7) has been frozen for release. I've not been able to get it to work on Alpha. I just received xserver commit access today, and I want to make sure that X.Org 7.5

Re: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

2009-09-05 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 10:55 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: I have ati cards -- an RV280 and an RV610. It may be the weekend before I can complete the compilation of the Xserver and run it. Thus far I've gotten three testers with matrox cards, but only me with a radeon. So this is excellent.

Re: [BUG] recent squeeze X11 updates causing SIGSEGV on startup

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Cree
On 15/09/2009, at 3:11 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: I'll file a proper bug report later, but thought I'd at least raise the alarm that X11 on the Alpha became unusable over the weekend after I applied recent squeeze updates. The X server dies with SIGSEGV (11) on startup. Michael: I'm guessing

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:04:02AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Just to keep any potentially interested parties in the loop, I've been trying to build xorg-server-1.7.0 for the past few days. Lots of Has anyone had any success with 1.7.x on Alpha? The patches to fix the xserver on Alpha have

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:38:11AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:38:33PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: Unfortunately Alpha disappears from Debian testing just before we get a working Xserver... That has been the most frustrating aspect of this whole journey. Xserver has

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-18 Thread Michael Cree
On 19/10/2009, at 4:35 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 02:56:49PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: The attached patch can be applied to the xserver 1.6 branch to fix it for Alpha. Thanks for the patch! I'm happy to report I *almost* have a working X server again! At least

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Cree
Bob Tracy wrote: Long story short: 1.7.0.902 fixed the problems with modules not loading because of undefined symbols, but the end result is no better than what I reported for the earlier 1.7.0 version. The mouse cursor is normal brightness, but the display is otherwise extremely dim: Maybe

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Cree
On 27/10/2009, at 5:09 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:18:05AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:05:10PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: Bob Tracy wrote: Long story short: 1.7.0.902 fixed the problems with modules not loading because of undefined symbols

Re: /debian/dists/testing/Contents-alpha* missing

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Cree
Bob Tracy wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:50:29PM +0100, Uwe Schindler wrote: But unstable should still work? Or is it even broken therefore? :/ Unstable still works: thanks for the reminder. Unstable may still be there for alpha, but I don't think any new binary packages have

Re: Bug#556790: gcc-4.3: unrecognizable insn on alpha

2009-12-01 Thread Michael Cree
On 02/12/09 18:18, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Michael Creemc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On 18/11/2009, at 9:31 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Package: gcc-4.3 Version: 4.3.4-5 Hi, I recently started seeing several cases of gcc giving an error message like this:

Re: Bug#556790: gcc-4.3: unrecognizable insn on alpha

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Cree
On 06/12/09 23:21, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:18:47AM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Michael Creemc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On 18/11/2009, at 9:31 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Package: gcc-4.3 Version: 4.3.4-5 Hi, I recently started seeing several

Re: Bug#520945: Iceweasel crashes when input type=radio has name attribute

2010-01-14 Thread Michael Cree
On 23/12/2009, at 11:53 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:24:50PM +0200, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.12-1 Followup-For: Bug #520945 If an alpha porter want to tackle this bug, you are free to do so. I won't be likely to spend time on it myself, as

Re: gdb thread error

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Cree
On 21/01/2010, at 5:07 AM, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings! I cannot debug the axiom build on alpha, at least si chroot on albeniz: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Cannot find new threads: generic error (gdb) Hmmm. I am also trying to debug some packages on Alpha and having

Re: Bug#572512: module-init-tools: depmod unaligned trap on alpha

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Cree
On 15/04/10 20:53, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 15, Meelis Roosmr...@linux.ee wrote: Please find out exactly which operation is causing the traps. Are there any news? I just found a moment to look at this: Core was generated by `depmod -a'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. #0

Re: Bug#572512: module-init-tools: depmod unaligned trap on alpha

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Cree
On 15/04/10 20:53, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 15, Meelis Roosmr...@linux.ee wrote: Please find out exactly which operation is causing the traps. Are there any news? After some digging I could not find out how to interpret these adresses and to correlate them against the binary. I could

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 30/07/2010, at 9:24 AM, Ian Las wrote: Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems that a kernel = 2.6.23 does not work for a 164UX system. What is the reason for the problem and any chance to fix it in the

Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 30/07/2010, at 1:25 PM, Matt Turner wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On 30/07/2010, at 9:24 AM, Ian Las wrote: Built a custom 2.6.27 kernel on a 164LX system with Alphabios and it works withouit any problems but unfortunately it seems

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Cree
On 4/08/2010, at 1:48 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: (1) DRI is broken again. That may've happened when much of the DRI was shifted into the kernel. (2) KMS works at the console level but breaks when X is started. But I wouldn't be too worried about that as we are in good company. KMS is reported

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: Unfortunately, firefox-3.6.8 built with an up-to-date lenny environment suffers from the same persistent segfault issues, which tends to indicate some kind of problem with libraries, which is what pushed me toward unstable originally, OK, I've got a

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 15:04, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Creemc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Comments welcome. I've received one strong recommendation to give Gentoo a try, Matt, no doubt :-/ He's a great evangelist for Gentoo. Turn that :-/ upside.. well, not down. :-\ is

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: So... What's the current state of unstable on Alpha? I've been told the following so far: Thinking about that list further we should add: 8) Xorg only works on bwx capable Alphas. I did take a look at fixing the Xserver for the older Alphas but

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-08 Thread Michael Cree
On 05/08/10 07:41, Bob Tracy wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:14:02PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: So... What's the current state of unstable on Alpha? I've been told the following so far: Thinking about that list further we should add: 8) Xorg only

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Cree
On 10/08/10 03:13, Bob Tracy wrote: That's good news after several days of no joy with firefox builds. Both 3.5.11 and 3.6.8 segfault in libxul.so on startup, whether built with gcc/g++ 4.4.5 or 4.2.4. That's a bummer. A monolithic build of Icecat 3.6.8 is working fine for me. Built with

Re: firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Cree
On 12/08/10 07:14, Bob Tracy wrote: firefox-3.5.4 build with gcc/g++-4.2.4 completed moments ago, and it works. On to 3.5.5: not going to mess with gcc/g++-4.4.5 for the time being -- each build is taking somewhere in the vicinity of 6 hours on my PWS 433au. Bob, what is the failure with

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 09:35, Michael Cree wrote: On 4/08/2010, at 1:48 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: (5) Some long-standing compiler and libc issues have been fixed upstream and in Debian, but recently, a build of libc in Debian Unstable failed. I see the memchr seg fault bug (521737) is still open. I have

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-09-27 Thread Michael Cree
On 20/09/10 22:18, Michael Cree wrote: On 04/08/10 09:35, Michael Cree wrote: On 4/08/2010, at 1:48 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: (5) Some long-standing compiler and libc issues have been fixed upstream and in Debian, but recently, a build of libc in Debian Unstable failed. I see the memchr seg fault

Re: new guy

2011-01-23 Thread Michael Cree
Hi Bob, I’m a new guy to linux on the alpha… Welcome! Just got an AS 4100 server and was looking for a distro of linux to put on it. Has anyone on the list had any luck with this machine and Debian? The only supported binary distribution for Alpha is the Debian Lenny release and it

Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Cree
On 24/02/11 20:02, Bob Tracy wrote: Well... Yes, sid is cantankerous and known to occasionally break working systems, but this is the first time the thermonuclear software upgrade option has been used effectively on my poor Alpha :-(. Specifically, I've got about 50 installed but unconfigured

Re: Help needed with eglibc 2.13

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Cree
On 20/03/11 10:37, Witold Baryluk wrote: I'm trying compiling eglibc on my alpha box now, but it hangs whole machine after 10 minutes of build process. I compiled libc (I think it was 2.11.2-11) from unstable, to get inotify_init1 and to fix memchr, without any problems and have it installed

Re: gcc build failures on alpha

2011-03-21 Thread Michael Cree
On 21/03/11 04:16, Matthias Klose wrote: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-snapshot fails to build with a link error. That's the GPREL16 relocation truncation error which is reputedly due to a bug in the linker optimiser. Linking with -Wl,--no-relax resolves those

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Cree
On 24/03/11 20:17, Robert Garron wrote: I just found out that alpha was dropped from squeeze [snip] ; and it seems that a few other alpha enthusiasts are willing also I'm prepared to pitch in and help. I am not a Debian Developer, but I have over the last two or three years stepped up to

Re: Help needed with eglibc 2.13

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Cree
On 28/03/11 06:18, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I have finally been able to fix or workaround all the EGLIBC issues on alpha. Among them, one seems to be really problematic and seems to be a binutils bug. Judging from the recent emails on the list, it seems some people are still interested by working

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze - Storage Question - we will need to store the code some where - Fwd: Disk drives

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Cree
On 29/03/2011, at 9:31 AM, Witold Baryluk wrote: As of disks, I have a one disk (Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB), which I can attach for a brief period of time into my Alpha, using PCI SATA controler. But I think other people is already using such disks in their machines. Can anybody

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2011-04-02 Thread Michael Cree
On 02/04/11 10:32, Witold Baryluk wrote: On 04-01 21:16, Matt Turner wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Mark Hymersm...@debian.org wrote: Hi, As mentioned in the recent ftp-team meeting minutes, we're planning to remove alpha and hppa from unstable. Might want to hold off on that for

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2011-04-11 Thread Michael Cree
On 03/04/11 02:06, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note that contrary to what a lot of people think, debian-ports is not part of the Debian infrastructure. It is run by (not enough) volunteers, partly on Debian money, partly on sponsoring and partly on volunteer funds. I am currently in contact with the

Advancing Debian Alpha Porting

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Cree
Debian Alpha People, You may have noted the removal of the Alpha port from the Debian autobuilder network. Packages are no longer being built for the unstable distribution. Hopefully you have seen the promising message from Aurelien [1] that it is likely that the Alpha port of Debian can

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2011-04-14 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/04/11 05:25, Matt Turner wrote: This is partly due to the fact that I hate trying to submit things to glibc. Also that I don't have any time right now. But mostly because I hate glibc development. So, is there someone in this new Alpha porting team that can help Matt with upstream

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2011-04-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 27/04/11 10:51, Witold Baryluk wrote: On 04-14 21:09, Michael Cree wrote: On 04/04/11 05:25, Matt Turner wrote: This is partly due to the fact that I hate trying to submit things to glibc. Also that I don't have any time right now. But mostly because I hate glibc development. So

Re: Moving alpha and hppa architectures to debian-ports.org

2011-04-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 29/04/11 04:22, Bill MacAllister wrote: --On Monday, April 25, 2011 07:45:42 PM +0200 Aurelien Jarno aure...@debian.org wrote: Hi Alpha and HPPA porters, Thanks to the DSA team, we now have a new machine with plenty of available space to run debian-ports.org. Great news! Thanks,

Re: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting

2011-04-29 Thread Michael Cree
On 26/04/11 19:29, Bill MacAllister wrote: System Description Contributor - 2 XP1000, 1GB RAM Witold Baryluk bary...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl CS20 Craig Prescott c...@ekkaia.net AS1200, 4GB, Dual CPU Bill MacAllister w...@stanford.edu DECServer

Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Cree
Richard, I hope you don't mind an email sent to you personally regarding problems with the linker on Alpha (I've also CCed the debian-alpha and binutils mail lists). I've noted some problems with ld on Alpha and am wanting to put some effort into fixing them but will need a bit of guidance

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-03 Thread Michael Cree
On 03/05/11 07:26, Richard Henderson wrote: On 04/30/2011 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote: Secondly, I noted a number of test suite failures in the ld component while building binutils. Large number? I get [...snip...] === ld tests === Running target alpha-qemu FAIL: plugin

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-03 Thread Michael Cree
On 03/05/11 21:21, Michael Cree wrote: On 03/05/11 07:26, Richard Henderson wrote: On 04/30/2011 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote: Secondly, I noted a number of test suite failures in the ld component while building binutils. === ld Summary === # of expected passes 505 # of unexpected failures

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Cree
On 03/05/11 21:21, Michael Cree wrote: On 03/05/11 07:26, Richard Henderson wrote: On 04/30/2011 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote: Secondly, I noted a number of test suite failures in the ld component while building binutils. Building binutils 2.21.51.20110419-2 from Debian (also with my fix tls

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Cree
On 07/05/11 07:11, Bob Tracy wrote: Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Cool! Are you working only on upstream firefox or also on iceweasel in experimental? I see the following comment in the iceweasel Debian changelog:

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-07 Thread Michael Cree
On 08/05/11 04:02, Matt Turner wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Michael Creemc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: BTW, I don't think anyone has implemented the Alpha specific code for IPC.. I think firefox has to be compiled with --disable-ipc. IIRC, the architecture specific code is a set of

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-07 Thread Michael Cree
On 08/05/11 00:38, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:12:36AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 07/05/11 07:11, Bob Tracy wrote: Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Cool! Are you working only on upstream firefox or also

Re: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting

2011-05-07 Thread Michael Cree
On 07/05/11 00:15, Tim Cutts wrote: On 18 Apr 2011, at 23:44, Michael Cree wrote: On Mon, April 18, 2011 1:48 pm, Witold Baryluk wrote: On 04-14 06:43, Bill MacAllister wrote: It appears we are to provide the Alpha buildds. Great. That's five machines at three sites. Two XP1k, Two A1200

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Cree
On 11/05/11 17:49, Bob Tracy wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:48:05PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Build successfully completed. Segfaults immediately on invocation: no surprise there. I'll report back when I've got something working, and I expect that will be a while: the combination of tool

Re: Recent experience with IDE/SATA PCI cards on alpha?

2011-05-14 Thread Michael Cree
On 13/05/11 05:06, Mark Ter Morshuizen wrote: Does anyone here have any recent experience with using IDE or SATA PCI controllers on Alpha? I would like to get some big disks on my 5305. I had a good experience running a 32-bit silicon image 3112 based SATA PCI controller on my XP1000. Works

Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Cree
On 19/05/2011, at 12:51 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:22:52PM +0200, 'Aurelien Jarno' wrote: I finally switched /etc/apt/sources.list over to ftp.debian- ports.org yesterday. This morning, apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade looks like this: Good to see some

Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Cree
On 19/05/2011, at 10:35 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: The quoted build time for the standard kernel package is unexpectedly high for the fire-breathing Alpha: I suppose that's due to building a kernel with *everything* enabled in the config, Yeah, the Debian kernel build includes just about every

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-28 Thread Michael Cree
On 03/05/11 12:32, Alan Modra wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 12:26:22PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: That plugin test, as far as I know, isn't system specific and fails for all targets. Passes as of 2011-04-18 Fails on Alpha at 2011-05-28. In particular the following tests fail: FAIL:

Re: Problems with linker on Alpha

2011-05-28 Thread Michael Cree
On 07/05/11 02:08, Richard Henderson wrote: On 05/06/2011 03:25 AM, Michael Cree wrote: So my question is, what is this [other: 80]? Does it matter? Is this failure a false report? It's these: /* Legal values for st_other field of Elf64_Sym. */ #define STO_ALPHA_NOPV 0x80

Re: gcc build failures on alpha

2011-06-03 Thread Michael Cree
On 22/03/11 01:31, Matthias Klose wrote: On 21.03.2011 13:19, Uros Bizjak wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-4.6suite=experimental Bootstrap comparison failure! gcc/opts.o differs make[4]: ***

Re: new buildds and devel alphas (Was: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting)

2011-06-21 Thread Michael Cree
On 18/05/11 12:47, Adrian Zaugg wrote: On 14/04/11 10:48, Michael Cree wrote: It appears we are to provide the Alpha buildds. We need at least two I just was thinking abaout activating my ES-45 as a part of the job. Are you still interested in doing that? We have four older Alphas being

Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?

2011-07-03 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/07/11 01:05, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: I would like to help somehow in the development of Debian on Alpha. Nice! We need all the help we can get. I managed to get one DS10 at home with 320GB harddisk, large enough to handle many compilation tasks. I will also bring up a DS20 very soon

Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?

2011-07-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 5/07/2011, at 11:22 AM, Bill MacAllister wrote: --On Monday, July 04, 2011 08:36:20 AM +1200 Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Life isn't easy in the Unstable chroot, worst of all, it seems that coreutils are working bad, expecially 'rm'. This is really bad situation, if coreutils

Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?

2011-07-05 Thread Michael Cree
On 06/07/11 04:25, Bill MacAllister wrote: The biggest difference that I see if the version of libc6.1. What is installing on my systems is 2.7-18lenny7. I will build a newer version and see if that helps me. I have that same version of libc6.1 on my Lenny system, but in the chroot it has

Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Cree
On 11/07/11 02:05, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: I am an Alpha enthusiast, so I will try to do something for the project. I have one DS10 at home, where I am doing the most of my tests now. I also have one DS20 (2x500) and a couple of 4100s (4x533 and 2x466) in fully working condition, but I could

Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Cree
On 13/07/11 20:23, Michael Cree wrote: On 11/07/11 02:05, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: I have a spare Qlogic PCI board, I could try if need some test and feedback (that's mainly why I am here). OK. But, don't spend too much time on that. I expect you will find it fails and when you do it does

Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Cree
On 13/07/11 20:42, Michael Cree wrote: On 13/07/11 20:23, Michael Cree wrote: On 11/07/11 02:05, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: I have a spare Qlogic PCI board, I could try if need some test and feedback (that's mainly why I am here). OK. But, don't spend too much time on that. I expect you

Re: ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Cree
On 22/07/11 04:04, Bob Tracy wrote: So... As it turns out, printing on my alpha has been broken for a while. Tracing back through the logs, the root cause is a missing gs_init.ps file, which really isn't missing: there's a version mismatch between the package providing the file, and the

Re: ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Cree
Bob, On 22/07/2011, at 8:09 AM, Michael Cree wrote: On 22/07/11 04:04, Bob Tracy wrote: So... As it turns out, printing on my alpha has been broken for a while. Tracing back through the logs, the root cause is a missing gs_init.ps file, which really isn't missing: there's a version mismatch

Re: ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 5/08/2011, at 2:00 AM, Uwe Schindler wrote: The package backlog is here, too: The old Alpha autobuilder has not been running since start of April, and we got the new one running from debian-ports up and going middle of July. Unfortunately a lot of architecture all packages have come

Re: ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-08-07 Thread Michael Cree
On 05/08/11 10:13, Bob Tracy wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:26:13AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: You guys may have been able to compile certain packages on your systems because you have an old install that is partially upgraded. Can't speak for anyone else reading this, but my unstable

Re: Update of /ports/alpha/ section of www.debian.org

2011-08-08 Thread Michael Cree
On 08/08/11 20:16, Bill MacAllister wrote: --On Monday, August 08, 2011 07:55:13 PM +1200 Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Maybe if I mention the people who have currently set up the buildds to build the Alpha port. They are: Michael Cree Bill McAllister Witold Baryluk Just

Re: Alpha ES45 buildd

2011-08-19 Thread Michael Cree
. The room temperature rose to 38°C and the other two servers working in there started to complain about the heat. Michael Cree recently wrote me the projects buildd problems was solved anyway. We had a number of promises of build daemons but some have not eventuated. At the moment we have my

Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping

2011-09-03 Thread Michael Cree
Debian Alpha Enthusiasts, We have been building packages for Alpha on Debian-Ports for just over six weeks now. There are two A1200s and one XP1000 working as build daemons so progress is not fast, but we have moved from over 4000 packages needing to be built to fewer than 2000 packages needing

Re: Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 4/09/2011, at 7:16 PM, Ken Raeburn wrote: On Sep 3, 2011, at 21:21, Michael Cree wrote: gnat-4.4 (The ada compiler) is also refusing to build. It seems to build depend on itself and isn't happy with the old version available so gets given back to be built again, ad infinitum. Maybe

Re: Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Cree
On 06/09/11 04:07, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:21:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: (...) Many have failed because of a broken ghostscript install. Unfortunately the newest ghostscript failed to build but I plan to have a closer look at that in the next couple of days. So

Re: Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Cree
On 4/09/2011, at 1:21 PM, Michael Cree wrote: I have noticed that anything built with java is failing to build with a couldn't find library libgcj_bc.so.1 error during the install stage. Maybe someone would like to investigate that further. I am guessing that this might be related

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