Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
in the documentation, I guess that patches will be welcome. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
/NetworkConsole is what you are looking for. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131209035613.gb23

Dead link on http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/devel

2013-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130923005857.gc24...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: make-jpkg/java-package on unstable/experimental missing?

2010-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
is the bug report that was used to track the removal. http://bugs.debian.org/577423 It seems that it is expected that openjdk is a good replacement. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Plessy
their help, and is lucky that they care for it. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: no sound on powermac3,3 (powerbook g4 550) debian502 gnome

2009-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:27:01PM -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : It seems that on some G5 machines, snd-powerpc could cause some lock ups, but the problem was reported ages ago and it seems to have been fixed. I'm not sure if Charles Plessy (in CC) still has his dual G5 and can test

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
:55:06 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux aqwa『~』$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Auto detection of audio hardware and driver loading on powerpc (was: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4)

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:16:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on this machine, why is that not the module that gets loaded? I think that is being adressed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525946 --

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
? Long time ago it had a bug that was freezing G5s as early as install time, so it got blacklisted by default by the debian installer. However, I checked more recently and apparently this would not be necessary anymore. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Fwd: Bug#526872: alsa-utils: please arange to have snd-powerpc module loaded at boot time on PowerMac G4 machines...

2009-06-14 Thread Charles Plessy
, and was disabled for this reason. But in a test I made one year ago, it was not the case anymore. There is probably no reason to keep it blacklisted by default, although it may be useful to double-check its innocuity before. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: G5 Debian Lenny Install Difficulties: iMac

2009-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
page has hints to figure out if it is A, B, or C. http://wiki.debian.org/iMacG5 Good luck, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: user without root privilege

2009-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
not forget to ask your question on debian-u...@l.d.o instead of this list next time.) -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade says libgnomekbd-common is being kept back on sid powerpc systems

2008-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
/pkg.cgi?pkg=libgnomekbd Therefore, libgnomekbd2, that requires libgnomekbd-common to be of the same version, is not installable on powerpc. I suggest that you contact the buildd administrator. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re: Bug#469030: debian ppc64 not booting after install

2008-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
partition and a LVM for the root, and everything went fine. I attached my yaboot.conf file just in case it helps. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: man yaboot.conf for details. Do not make changes until you have

Re: snd-aos not working on a PowerBook6,2 (PowerBook G4 12)

2008-08-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:16:47PM +0300, Risto Suominen a écrit : 2008/8/21, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If there a chance that snd-powermac does not crash iMacs G5 anymore, I volunteer to make tests. Does anybody know if the code of snd-powermac evolved since 2006? Yes

Re: snd-aos not working on a PowerBook6,2 (PowerBook G4 12)

2008-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:46:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : On 2008-08-19 09:25:26 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: snd-powermac was making the system freeze on G5 iMacs. That's why it was disabled around Etch release. But the consequence is that sound no longer works on old PowerBooks

Re: snd-aos not working on a PowerBook6,2 (PowerBook G4 12)

2008-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:45:35AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : On 2008-08-21 22:55:38 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I agree, but if I understand correctly, the choice was between sound not working out of the box on some computers, or Debian crashing out of the box on some others

Re: snd-aos not working on a PowerBook6,2 (PowerBook G4 12)

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
freeze on G5 iMacs. That's why it was disabled around Etch release. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:17 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Another example I have is a map website by Yahoo Japan: http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?type=scrolllat=35.35961995lon=138.73361576sc=7mode=mappointer=on With Iceweasel

Re: Build failure of supertuxkart on powerpc

2008-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 10:24 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-AltiVec-Built_002din-Functions.html These flags are prerequisites for allowing the resulting binaries to contain Altivec code

Airport extreme and linux-2.6.25.

2008-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
:33 sorbet kernel: [ 338.390829] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input18 Aug 3 14:53:34 sorbet kernel: [ 338.992543] b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding The downloaded firmware is the latest, not the obsolete one from b43-fwcutter. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: The result is that on some particular types of computations, the G5 performs extremely bad: something like twice slower as an old 1.5 Ghz Celeron machine. For some

Bug#493330: installation-reports: Successful installation of Lenny on an iMac G5 revA ; Japanese keyboard missing.

2008-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
is not proposed may be that it is not specific to macintoshes. However it works well with them and handles Apple special keys, so it is safe to add it. Have a nice week-end, and thanks for the great work you made on the installer. -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- Package-specific info: Boot

Poor performance of G5 on GNOME's CPU benchmarks.

2008-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
of a 1.8 Ghz chip? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#493327: xserver-xorg-video-nv: Circular permutation of the screen on half a centimeter (iMac G5, GeForce FX Go5200)

2008-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
to #474319, but I am not sure, so I decided to open a new one. My computer is a iMac G5 first model with a GeForce FX Go5200. Have a nice weekend, and please let me know how I can help you to solve the bug. -- Charles Plessy -- Package-specific info: Contents of /var/lib/x11/X.roster: xserver-xorg

Questions for architecture requalification.

2008-07-20 Thread Charles Plessy
or a developper commited on long term that keeps the kernel, the glibc, the gcc and the boot loaders working and up to date? Debian: who admins the buildds, who host the buildds, and where ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

gcc-4.3 build failure on G5 powerpc.

2008-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
is on Sourceforge: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/maq/maq-0.6.7.tar.bz2 Do you think that it is a bug in Maq or in gcc ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: gcc-4.3 build failure on G5 powerpc.

2008-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Michel, Le Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:15:19PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 19:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: simulate.c: In function ‘simustat_core’: simulate.c:374: internal compiler error: in expand_expr_real_1, at expr.c:9199 Please submit a full bug report

Non-USA Mac keyboard layouts.

2008-06-11 Thread Charles Plessy
, and the jp106 keymap is able to cope with the small deviations of the japanese layout of macintosh keyboards. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-USA Mac keyboard layouts.

2008-06-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:32:13AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : the macintosh XkbModel has several country/language XkbLayouts, just like pc10x. Looks like there's no jp XkbLayout for it yet though according to dpkg -L xkb-data|grep mac . Thanks for the precision. It seems that there is

Re: Very weird results with X.org and fresh sid install

2008-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
encountered this problem more than one year ago on an iBook of similar age. So the cause is probably not to be looked for in recent changes of the X packages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Strange kernel message.

2008-04-16 Thread Charles Plessy
(0fc19b40) on /dev/pts/4 ioctl32(gnome-terminal:5880): Unknown cmd fd(28) cmd(530b){t:'S';sz:0} arg(0fc19b48) on /dev/pts/4 ioctl32(gnome-terminal:5880): Unknown cmd fd(28) cmd(530b){t:'S';sz:0} arg(0fc19b50) on /dev/pts/4 Anybody knows what it means ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy

Re: How to install testing version of Debain on PS3

2008-03-17 Thread Charles Plessy
a kernel image package and a boot loader, just ignore and continue. (...) Enjoy! Very interesting! Do not hesitate to send an installation report if you did not. http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http

Re: Will Debian 5.0 have support for PS3?

2008-03-06 Thread Charles Plessy
/powerpcLennyReleaseRecertification http://wiki.debian.org/VolunteersForPowerPC Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMAC G5 Mac OS X 10.4

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:47:05PM +0100, mi demur a écrit : someone has installed Linux-debian in a IMAC G5 ? Salut, http://wiki.debian.org/iMacG5 Bonne journée, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: install yaboot

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
/ http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about powerpc debian build process

2008-01-04 Thread Charles Plessy
, depending on the difficulty, purpose and general interest of your work. Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#443272: Partitions detected with mac-fdisk, but not with partman.

2007-11-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:39:10PM -0500, Jim Paris a écrit : IIRC the Mac partition table format is bigger than just one sector, something like dd if=/dev/sda of=sda_boot.dd bs=512 count=16 could be more useful. Here it is (attached). Just in case it can help others to spot strange

Partitions detected with mac-fdisk, but not with partman.

2007-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
with partman happened already before I connected it. I hope that you can help me to install Debian on this computer. On my side, I can test updated versions of the installer on this one, and on an iMac G5 if necessary. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama

Re: Bug#443272: Partitions detected with mac-fdisk, but not with partman.

2007-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:36:04PM +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : You do not say anything about what type of system this is. Please do always provide that information! Ah, sorry, I thought that the information in the first message of the bug report was sufficient. I attached the hardware-summary

Re: Bug#443272: Partitions detected with mac-fdisk, but not with partman.

2007-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
merge 354951 378593 388085 443272 thanks Le Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 01:41:17PM +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : On Monday 05 November 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Error: The partition's data region

Re: Volunteers for the powerpc port.

2007-10-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:57:47PM -0300, Mauro a écrit : On 10/1/07, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/VolunteersForPowerPC Hi to all, it is required any level of knowledge to contribute/help ? i mean, i may have not all the technical skills, but i could

Re: Lenny on Imac G5 no windfarm module

2007-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
? Yes: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sidarch=anymode=filenamesearchon=contentskeywords=windfarm Excellent, it means that the same problem with the installer should probably dissapear in the future (if it has not already). -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan

Volunteers for the powerpc port.

2007-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
that this list will grow and will motivate people to work on this arch, not only for the release, but for any other projects such as live CDs for instance. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#443272: installation-reports: Partition not detected on a ST3500630AS Seagate 500 Go drive ; fan speed at maximum

2007-09-20 Thread Charles Plessy
work. I hope you or somebody from the debian-powerpc list (CCed) can help me to install the dual boot (even at full fan speed), as I need it at work. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: ipmitool for powerpc?

2007-09-05 Thread Charles Plessy
=powerpcstamp=1112835983file=log (same for ia64) Maybe you could try to contact the buildd admins? More info here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-porter-automation Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan

Re: Request assistance with monotone package on powerpc

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
try your luck with this service: http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/ I have no experience with it... Keep us informed! Good luck in your bug hunting, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Running Debian-Live on G5 machines.

2007-09-02 Thread Charles Plessy
I doubt the problem is because you have a G5. Hi Mike, Maybe we do not talk about the same CD : did you try `Debian-Live' ? http://live.debian.net/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: missing images at ebay

2007-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
one because IBM does not distibute the same tarballs as during Etch freeze. Also, you may need to install libstdc++5. But I have no idea if it will make a difference when browsing Ebay... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Please unban S. Luther from debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org

2007-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
they would like the ban of Sven Luther to be lifted and the answer was yes. I can not speak for the others, but on the other hand, nobody retracted his support to his comeback, so could you consier lifiting his ban again ? Many thanks, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama

Re: localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0

2007-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:56:00PM -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : Aug 28 02:52:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 498.947455] ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Aug 28 02:52:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 498.947461] ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError } Aug 28 02:52:53 ubuntu kernel: [

[HS] Suggestions for a new hard drive ?

2007-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
not need particularly big size or transfer rates... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0

2007-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:56:00PM -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : Hi, Charles. On Aug 28 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: I have rebooted on an Ubuntu live CD, and after mounting the partition, I get the following error while browsing the directory tree: Just for curiosity, which Ubuntu CD

localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0

2007-08-27 Thread Charles Plessy
, can I plug the disk on a i386 machine and run ddrescue on it? The hard drive was used with a Debian Etch install with security updates. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Open21xx Bug Report

2007-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
. But here is a strace of the failing part on G5 powerpc, and the enigmatic filename.dat. Hope it can help... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan execve(/usr/bin/make, [make], [/* 34 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys=Linux, node=sorbet, ...}) = 0 brk(0

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:05:41AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : In both cases, the main point is work force, people interested in contributing, and able to give some of their time for it. Hi Sven, I can test the installer on iMac G5 21' rev A when needed... Have a nice day, -- Charles

Re: Sven Luther

2007-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
as well... Bonne journée) -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help requested to fix powerpc related bug with game berusky

2007-07-07 Thread Charles Plessy
the program from a X session on a 640x480 or 800x600 resulution makes the program segfault. I am using an iMac with a nvidia card and the free drivers. There are no proprietary drivers for us... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan

Re: Debian PPC 4.0 XFCE on a iMac G5 (3rd Generation)

2007-06-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:11:08AM -0700, Wayde C. Gutman a écrit : Can anyone point me to a resource for information on installing Debian 4.0 XFCE on a iMac G5, and fixes involved? Sure, here it is, http://wiki.debian.org/iMacG5 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
the cause of the failure is the wrong guess of build system type. If somebody is interested to dig in the logs, they are (more or less temporarly) available on my website, at http://charles.plessy.org/debian/pbuildd/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
is used by default when necessary ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC buildd back online

2007-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
the new contact person for issues with this buildd? (in that case, buildd.net should be updated). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
documented... Any idea on the best place for this? The port homepage? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
for this reason. The cowbuildd is on a machine at work that I left running this weekend to collect as many logs as possible before stopping the experiment (I need its CPUs to work for my research during buisness days :) I will report a summary monday, Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http

Re: woes of installation of debian on G5

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Plessy
, - Install a minimal ydl on another, - use ydl's yaboot to start Debian until either: - somebody fixes yaboot in Debian, - somebody reports a successful usage of GRUB2 on powerpc. Good luck !! -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
am wondering is wether the pacakges built successfully with the wrong build system type are useful on normal 32-bit processors. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Please requeue dpkg on powerpc buildd.

2007-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=dpkgarch=powerpc ? -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please requeue dpkg on powerpc buildd.

2007-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:39:04AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 16:33 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:26:05AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED]|9:13:24 apt-cache policy dpkg dpkg: Installed: 1.14.2 Candidate

Please requeue dpkg on powerpc buildd.

2007-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
=powerpc;stamp=1178740704 PS: buildd.net does not know the address of the admin of Malo, so me neither... -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please requeue dpkg on powerpc buildd.

2007-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:26:09PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz a écrit : On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:35:32AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Dan, Voltaire failed to build the latest dpkg for a strange system clock reason. Can you requeue it? No, I can't. Please send mail to [EMAIL

Please requeue dpkg on powerpc buildd.

2007-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
=1.14.2;arch=powerpc;stamp=1178740704 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Charles Plessy
as the problem is not fixed, the question of having or not a G5 buildd has a clear answer : No. Clearly, pbuildding the whole archive on a G5 would give intersting data. I am trying to do this, but due to my low level, I do not know when I will succeed. Feel free to overtake me ! Have a nice day, -- Charles

Building the powerpc archive on a machine having ppc64 in its uname output.

2007-05-11 Thread Charles Plessy
:45:59AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:34:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: But I have another concern. In my experience, some debian source packages do not build on G5 running the Debian powerpc port because their ./configure scripts get confused by the ppc64

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, Mabye a DD could use the request tracker to deal with these issues? https://rt.debian.org/ (guest/readonly) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-05-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:54:49PM -0400, Wakko Warner a écrit : Charles Plessy wrote: Thanks for the hint. I added the following line in xorg.conf: ModeLine1920x1200 138 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204 1242 Howerver, I can not go lower than 138 (it freezes

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[workaround] Re: Did not manage to resize an HFS+ partition on a powermac G5.

2007-04-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:28:01PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Dear lists, I am trying to install Debian on a powermac7,3 at work, but I did not manage to resize the main HFS+ partition. Although I have a backup, I would like to avoid reinstalling MacOS X. I saw on the web reports from

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 07:07:37AM +, Jack Malmostoso a écrit : On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:50:05 +0200, Charles Plessy wrote: My problem is that I can not ask for a new graphical card just because I can not install linux on my work computer: working with linux is more comfortable in some

Did not manage to resize an HFS+ partition on a powermac G5.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
disabled journaling with sudo diskutil disableJournal / Any idea ? I am a bit frustrated of not being able to use the packages I made... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
to reduce the refreshing frequency of the screen. However, in /etc/X11/xorg, there are two ranges of, horizontal and vertical, so I do not know how to tell xorg to refresh at 50 Hz. Did anybody experience the same problem and found a solution ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:22:21PM -0400, Wakko Warner a écrit : Charles Plessy wrote: I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work with the computer. I have found a hint on the fglrx page

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu a écrit : Hi, In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). Hi, Maybe you can try to use the .config from the debian package for Etch ? Have a nice day,

Re: debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [ was Re: Install 4.0 r0 Etch on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR ]

2007-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
answering is defeated. The subscribers of this list are not judges counting points; there is no need to take us as witnesses of your argument. The most important information has been said: It is acceptable to cross-post on debian-boot and debian-kernel. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
who care for a port could do things directly by themselves, and one can not ask to the porters to be at the same time one members of the kernel, installer, release, buildd, ftp, and security teams... I hope that this message helps a bit to make the things progress. Have a nice day, -- Charles

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:35:52AM -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : Charles Plessy wrote: How about releasing a RC1.5, then, with a 2.6.18 as similar as possible as the one forecasted in testing ? There are of course all kinds of ways to hack around this, but all of them are suboptimal

Re: Debian has failed us (Why ?)

2007-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
team with more responsabilities would reduce the conflicts by making people more able to work independantly. In conclusion, we have to adapt the work to the men, not the men to the work... -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Apple (powerpc) keyboards on etch

2006-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
. For the diagnostics, setxkbmap -print will output something similar as what you found in the logs. I hope this helps, and joyeuses fêtes de fin d'année anyway. PS: I do not have a french keyboard. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-26 Thread Charles Plessy
for a similar task on s390, wich seems to be a zombie port. Getting the email-adress of a person to contact when the mail-list does not react would be very useful. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Airport Extreme Support

2006-12-13 Thread Charles Plessy
is able to pick the nearest network, but I have no idea about how to detect networks or swich between them... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
the OEM one anyway. Does anybody has an idea on the number of ppc macintoshes Apple sold? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
/iMacG5?action=info Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fan control: installer OK, installed KO.

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:12:56PM +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:20, Charles Plessy wrote: On the other hand, I recommend to test wether they also stay silent on the installed system as well. Could you do this? Hi, The problem with the fan control

Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
, as your G5 runs in 32-bit mode (which is usually slightly faster than 64 bit mode). By the way, Java comes from Sun, not Adobe. Have a nice weekend, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-12-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:45:18AM +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:04, Étienne Bersac wrote: Beware not to confuse iMac G5 rev AB and rev C (among PowerMac G5). iMac G5 rev C (chip PowerMac 12,1) do not have yet their windfarm driver. Benh told that he

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
don't have to do a full install, the fans should be silent by the time you reach partioning at latest...) On the other hand, I recommend to test wether they also stay silent on the installed system as well. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan

Bug#235152: distributed-net: Not reproduced with the latest packaged version.

2006-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
to decide wether to close it or not. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18farm

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
drivers for Nvidia is still a pain, though). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CapsLock freezing Yaboot...

2006-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I just would like to mention a bug I reported recently: pressing CapsLock (on a PC keyborad, my Apple keyboard had a tragic accident), freezes yaboot. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399330 Does it happen on other machines? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http

Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...

2006-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
on G5 iMacs, how about making an specific installer? This would introduce the opportunity of supporting the Airport extreme card on machines on which the users kept an OSX system, or by asking them to insert the installation CD. Amicalement, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama

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