IBM RS/6000 44P 170 Install

2008-09-09 Thread Benjamin Hoffman
It seems that all info that I can find on the web for installing Debian on this machine is outdated. Every guide describes the installation of 3.0 yet every guide is older than the latest firmware for this machine. All I did was install the new firmware on the server and installed Debian

Re: G3 Beige Tower install with BootX - help

2008-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Hello all, I have been working with Debian for quite a few years now and using powermac G3 machines with extra network cards in them as routers and firewalls, etc. These machines were set up back in the days of Woody and have been kept uptodate with security updates, but otherwise

Re: The status of Preemptible kernels on PowerPC?

2008-09-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 19:14 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Hi there. In the past, there were some problems with the PREEMPT option of the kernel and PowerPC and I remember that BenH just recommended that we disabled it when compiling kernels from his tree (gee, that was quite some time ago).

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-09 Thread Nicholas Helps
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Kernel problems - PMU related

2008-09-09 Thread Marko Kaiser
Hi list! I have trouble running the latest sid kernel on my macmini G4 1Ghz. When loading the kernel modules, it loads eeprom and afterwards a delay of 10 seconds occurs and a message with something like PMU (!ack) is displayed and the machine stops booting. What's wrong here? I already reset

Re: G3 Beige Tower install with BootX - help

2008-09-09 Thread Nicholas Helps
Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/09/08 8:49 AM Hello all, I have been working with Debian for quite a few years now and using powermac G3 machines with extra network cards in them as routers and firewalls, etc. These machines were set up back in the days of Woody and have been

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

2008-09-09 Thread Piotr Kopszak
BTW, please *post* your installation reports so that we can link them to the release certification page. I want to help with this arch as much as I can. Just a very, very brief installation report. I was installing lenny on Sunday 7th September using snapshot of businesscard installation CD

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:17:55AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote: Hello Stephen (and everyone else), Howdy Nicholas, Being polite this time ;-) Glad the step by step worked. Please make sure you acknowledge Rick as well, without this help, I would never have gotten my install working

Re: Call Trace and scary messages on kernel 2.6.27-rc5

2008-09-09 Thread Marc Zyngier
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:47:29 -0300 Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. I just compiled a new 2.6.27-rc5 kernel for my standard Kurobox (an embedded NAS that has an MPC8241 CPU, if I'm not mistaken) and upon booting, I get these scary messages and Call Traces: [snip] This is a

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 9, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:17:55AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote: Hello Stephen (and everyone else), Howdy Nicholas, Being polite this time ;-) Glad the step by step worked. Please make sure you acknowledge Rick as well, without this

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:34:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/8, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ ...] The other IDE socket has probably the CD drive (hdc)? Maybe the spare drive has been as a slave in its earlier life? In Linux, hda/b are master/slave on primary ide bus, and

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: That's good news. I have tried to get xorg and gnome running on my test machine, but it seems that the video chip it has isn't very well supported. I need to open a bug report on the subject. I have 2 video cards in it. Back in