Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:17:41PM +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: Does the latest Debian/PPC 3.0 iso support it? I planned to use the easeness of ubuntu as starting point, but aint afraid of a debian vanilla install. Debin can be installed more easily these days than many people used to

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:56:48AM +0100, Daniel Payno wrote: El 11/02/2006, a las 22:17, Mich Lanners escribió: I plan to install linux but: * Ubuntu/PPC 5.10's Live/Install kernels don't support my Superdrive What do you mean; doesn't support the SuperDrive? The DVD drive is a generic

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:11:36AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: I remember that in a recent issue of a german Linux magazin a work around for this was presented: Use the 2.4 kernel to do a (minimal) install and then build your own kernel ( 2.6.8 in Sarge). There were some minor tips around

Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Wouter Lueks
It's been some time since I updated my kernel. I'm currently using a self-compiled 2.6.12 kernel. It thought it was time to check out the stock debian kernels since the seemed to be working very good for a lot of people. So I went ahead and installed the debian kernel and hoped it would boot.

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Sven, On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:46:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:11:36AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: I remember that in a recent issue of a german Linux magazin a work around for this was presented: Use the 2.4 kernel to do a (minimal) install and then

Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Chris Burdess
Wouter Lueks wrote: However, no matter what I try I keep getting the following error: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) The root-fs is XFS, and the xfs module is included in the initrd module. Link the xfs filesystem statically into your kernel. -- 犬 Chris Burdess They

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Andrzej Mendel
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 18:05 +0100, Daniel Payno wrote: Hello all! This is my first e-mail all because a few days ago bought myself a brand new iPowerBook 15 (Alubook so it seems :) with MACOsX It bundles a new dl superdrive: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846: Revisión del firmware:

Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:56:08 +, Chris Burdess wrote: Wouter Lueks wrote: However, no matter what I try I keep getting the following error: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) The root-fs is XFS, and the xfs module is included in the initrd module. Link the xfs

Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 the mental interface of Wouter Lueks told: [...] initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-powerpc initrd content: Why are you guys using that damn .. initrd? Compile all stuff needed for booting directly into the kernel, throw initrd away and you're happy. initrd just

Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Sergio Talens-Oliag
El Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Wouter Lueks va escriure: It's been some time since I updated my kernel. I'm currently using a self-compiled 2.6.12 kernel. It thought it was time to check out the stock debian kernels since the seemed to be working very good for a lot of people.

Re: 2.6.16-rc1

2006-02-12 Thread Bin Zhang
On 2/4/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone managed to get linux-2.6.16-rc1 to boot successfully on a powermac? It appears to detect the IDE controller and HDD on my mac mini, but then fails to mount the root fs. (It's hard to double

Re: 2.6.16-rc1

2006-02-12 Thread Roger Leigh
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further investigation (using netconsole) shows the breakage (in 2.6.16-rc1 and -rc2) is due to discovering an additional IDE controller (KeyLargo) before the normal (UniNorth) controller: Some patch that went in -rc1 screwed up the existing

2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; Freescale 7447A): $ date touch f ls -l f rm -f f date Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 Notice the timestamp is 3 minutes in the future compared

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:13:50PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi folks, When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; Freescale 7447A): $ date touch f ls -l f rm -f f date Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 Sun Feb 12 12:20:14

Re: MythTV PPC

2006-02-12 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 06:56:55AM +0100, Inge Eidem wrote: Hi everyone I have talk to alioth, and they have approved another project. So here it is! Ill talk to the project admins about including a PPC build. http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mythtv Sorry for being late on this

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; Freescale 7447A): $ date touch f ls -l f rm -f f date Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 Notice the timestamp is

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Feb 12, Roger Leigh wrote: In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might be a problem. I dont run Debian, but: My G4/466 has the hwclock at 1970 for some reason. The early bootscripts call klogd, which calls nanosleep. This syscall takes 3 hours to complete. A

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Bin Zhang
On 2/12/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; Freescale 7447A): $ date touch f ls -l f rm -f f date Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 12 Feb, this message from Andrzej Mendel echoed through cyberspace: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 18:05 +0100, Daniel Payno wrote: I plan to install linux but: * Ubuntu/PPC 5.10's Live/Install kernels don't support my Superdrive Impossible, both Ubuntu 5.10 and Debian Sarge supports DVD

Re: hi and first and hopefully last question

2006-02-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:48:08AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Sven, On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:46:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:11:36AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: I remember that in a recent issue of a german Linux magazin a work around for this

Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Wouter Lueks wrote: It's been some time since I updated my kernel. I'm currently using a self-compiled 2.6.12 kernel. It thought it was time to check out the stock debian kernels since the seemed to be working very good for a lot of people. So I

Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:56:08AM +, Chris Burdess wrote: Wouter Lueks wrote: However, no matter what I try I keep getting the following error: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) The root-fs is XFS, and the xfs module is included in the initrd module. Link the

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 17:13 +, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi folks, When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; Freescale 7447A): $ date touch f ls -l f rm -f f date Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT

Re: Unable to boot with debian kernel 2.6.15

2006-02-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:02:24PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 the mental interface of Wouter Lueks told: [...] initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-powerpc initrd content: Its supposed to be a initramfs ramdisk, not in the initrd format anymore. Why are

gphoto 2

2006-02-12 Thread david
Hi all I have a mini mac, running sarge. The standard 2.6.8 kernel makes no sound, so I have installed the stock 2.6.15 kernel from www.ppckernel.org which fixed the sound problem. OK so far so good :) My digital camera works fine with gphoto2 and gtkam using the 2.6.8 kernel. Using the

Re: gphoto 2

2006-02-12 Thread Erik Chakravarty
make sure you have permissons on your USB device. try running gtkam with sudo and see if that works. On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:44 +1100, david wrote: Hi all I have a mini mac, running sarge. The standard 2.6.8 kernel makes no sound, so I have installed the stock 2.6.15 kernel from

Bash,/dev/null and errors

2006-02-12 Thread Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW
Hi everyone, i've been experiencing this strange error for about 1 month now. I am using Xfce4/Xorg on an ibook 14 and i've tried many kernels but the problem persisted. Sometimes, i cannot reproduce it nor find the sequence of steps that lead to the problem, the system will boot, X will start but

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Roger Leigh
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; Freescale 7447A): $ date touch f ls -l f rm -f f date Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 Sun Feb