[PATCH] powerpc: dont allow old RTC to be selected

2006-02-12 Thread Anton Blanchard
> I've had several spates of time-going-nuts on ppc64. The most recent one > was because someone went and fiddled with Kconfig naming and I lost the RTC > driver. This might help a bit: Now powerpc uses the generic RTC stuff we should not enable the old RTC. Doing so will result in hangs at bo

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 2

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
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 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 > >

Re: gphoto 2

2006-02-12 Thread david
Ok, all fixed :) I tried the permission trick, to no avail. I have used libgphoto2-2 from testing with gtkam and gphoto2 from the same source, everything is sweet now:) (but only the apt god knows what I have broken) david Erik Chakravarty wrote: make sure you have permissons on your USB d

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: 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 >

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 2.6.

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.

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

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.

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. > > S

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

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

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 r

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.

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

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

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

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 comp

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 ex

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

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: 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 ju

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. > > Li

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 firmwa

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 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

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. H

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 arou

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

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 us