powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again
Hi, FYI, the daily sid_d-i CD builds are working again for powerpc. Sorry for the long hiatus here! Among other things, those of you with tg3 network cards should be able to use these. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation notes/probs
The CPU in your iBook G4 is a 32bit processor, so you cannot boot a 64bit kernel. Use manual partitioning, it's there iirc. Then choose the mount points for the linux partitions you've made, select to format them, make sure the boot flag is selected for the partition that'll contain /boot (so / or /boot partition) and continue the installation. On 5/1/06 8:01 PM, David Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i've run into 2 problems while trying to install. i downloaded the debain testing cd 1 for ppc. i'm trying to do a dual boot setup with macosx. i have an ibook g4 1.2Ghz. first, in the macosx install i opened disk utility and made 2 partitions each with the macos Extended (hfs+) type. then i installed macosx on the second partition without any problems. now comes the debian installer, starting with the yaboot menu: This is the debian installation cdrom, built on 20060424. if i type in install64 i get the following error: please wait loading kernel... [...] ramdisk loaded at 01a00, size 3522kbytes Invalid memory acces at %SRR0: 014082e8 %SRR1: 00083030 and then the openfirmware loads.. ok the only option that worked was by typing install. when i come to the partitioning part, debian only lets me choose one partition: to erase the entire disk. shouldn't it recognise the 2 partitions?? then i followed some online guides that say to use mac-fdisk. so i did this: i deleted the intended for linux partition, and created a boot, swap and root partition. when i was done it looked like this: /dev/hda1 ... apple_partition_map, 31k ../hda2 ... apple_boot, 128M hda3 ... apple_hfsx, 45G hda4 ... apple_boot, 128M hda5 ... apple_bootstrap (newworld bootblock), 800k hda6 ... swap, 768M hda7 ... root, 9G but the debian installer only lets me select: IDE1 master (hda) - 60.0 GB Toshiba .. instead of the 2 partitions. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Wouter Amerijckx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PATCH] via-pmu: report powerbutton as proper input event
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:30:58PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: No. I don't see why his posting here should be something development *only* related. The patch obviously can be *used* and tested. I'm glad he posted it here: IINM it's a ppc patch, and I have good use for it for my self-compiled kernels .. :) The argument is that even that doesn't belong here since it is clearly not debian related. I agree, but we don't have a good linuxppc-users list that covers distribution-independent stuff, so we tend to abuse this one (see all the posts by ubuntu and sometimes gentoo users). Seconded. On top of that, I just figured my linuxppc-dev subscription lapsed for some reason ... Please keep cc:'ing debian-powerpc on relevant patches. I could live with that, too .. Because actually I don't care which header line is used to send me a patch ... :) And yes: My previous message should not have said that I'd like to have *every* patch sent to some kernel-devel list. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do a backport if something promising comes on. Not sure i will have the time to fix it myself though. Prep has been relegated to an embedded platform that builds only in arch/ppc for now. It should still work there though. We might move it over to powerpc one day... You told me on irc that you broke prep on arch/ppc, did you fix it again ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
Thanks a lot for your work On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. On a alubook 5,8, testing the debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso -- 1: It boots correctly 2: Choose language/Country: Works (for German) 3: Choose keyboard: Does work with restrictions for a German one: German umlauts are unavailable on the (ncurses) installer menu: Umlauts work on the console. 4: The installer hung for minutes, giving me no messages whatsoever on tty4 for the reason of this issue: Then, after - for my taste - a much too long time it gave me back a crashed installerscreen to choose the network card. At this point I couldn't even change to tty4 or tty(2?). After a few minutes of waiting I pressed the power button for a new try. The reason for the crash *might* have been either that I chose the wrong network card (eth1) or the fact that I tried umlauts on the choose hostname screen: The latter meant I typed an umlaut which ended in something like F1 or E4 and similarly wrong output. Then trying the key on the right side of the Apple key then unexpectedly worked as an ENTER key, thus setting the Rechnername (something like machine name in English?) with these wrong umlaut substitutes. 5: The installer did not not recognise an attached SCSI disk, that was connnected to the machine via Firewire 400. I expected the disk on sda, and I tried to see it with mac-fdisk and with a simple ls /dev/ and then typing TAB to see the optional devices ... I chose Festplatten erkennen, something like detect hard discs, to no avail ... /dev/hda inside the machine, was detected correctly with all partitions, as it seems ... 6: Network (Internet) connection, manually configured because I do not use DHCP on the router, seems to work After the partitioning screen I rebooted (just to be sure it didn't change anything ... :) More tests on the business card iso? Let me know if yes, please .. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC][Patch] Cirumvent appletouch fuzziness
Le mercredi 03 mai 2006 à 07:33 +0200, Johannes Berg a écrit : On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 +0200, Sven Henkel wrote: Heh, yes :) But that's exactly my problem: xy_acc _should_ be all zeros when there's no finger on the touchpad, but from time to time some entries in it grow to values 0, and even ATP_THRESHOLD. So, when I use the touchpad in such a failure scenario, it looks to the appletouch driver as if I had two fingers on the touchpad (one caused by me, the other one by the failures in xy_acc). Hence moving the pointer becomes quite ugly and taps result in the wrong mouse-buttons. I think this actually happens when you *don't* touch the touchpad for quite a while. I've seen it happen too, will have to test your patch though. Hmmm, I use an external mouse as well as the touchpad, so it happens quite often that I don't touch the touchpad for some time. However, I never experienced (with current kernels; it did happen with older appletouch versions) such behaviour. Very rarely the appletouch driver stops working completly (sometimes after a resume from suspend to ram, sometimes for other unknown reason) and I have to reload the module in order to make it work again. But this happens just once per week (and I use the laptop daily for 10+ hours), so it never bothered me enough to look more closely. I'm not sure if this changes something but do you have all the Apple firmware updates installed ? Sven: What Powerbook model do you have ? I know Johannes has the hi-res Powerbook, and I have the slighly older lo-res Powerbook... Stelian. -- Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC][Patch] Cirumvent appletouch fuzziness
Hi, On 5/3/06, Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this changes something but do you have all the Apple firmware updates installed ? Firmware updates? If these are automatically installed by Tiger's shiny software update function, then: yes. Otherwise: no idea. ;) Sven: What Powerbook model do you have ? I know Johannes has the hi-res Powerbook, and I have the slighly older lo-res Powerbook... It's actually an iBook G4, 12, 1.33 GHz, identifies itself as PowerBook6,7. Should still be equal to the current 12 version sold by Apple. Cheers, Sven
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Thanks a lot for your work On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. On a alubook 5,8, testing the debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso The report below seems to be true also for the debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso -- [ ... ] 4: The installer hung for minutes, giving me no messages whatsoever on tty4 for the reason of this issue: Then, after - for my taste - a much too long time it gave me back a crashed installerscreen to choose the network card. At this point I couldn't even change to tty4 or tty(2?). After a few minutes of waiting I pressed the power button for a new try. The reason for the crash *might* have been either that I chose the wrong network card (eth1) or the fact that I tried umlauts on the choose hostname screen: The latter meant I typed an umlaut which ended in Not being sure any more which installer screen it really was (choose hostname, or choose machine name. No matter which one it was: the installer crashed with the businesscard.iso ... The reason, as I wrote before, could also have been that I chose the wrong NIC ... please see below .. something like F1 or E4 and similarly wrong output. Then trying the key on the right side of the Apple key then unexpectedly worked as an ENTER key, thus setting the Rechnername (something like machine name in English?) with these wrong umlaut substitutes. This time it crashed after first choosing the (wrong) eth1 NIC when trying to configure the network, then manually configuring the NIC and then typing the Rechnername (machine name) with Umlauts. And it took about 7 minutes until I had back the crashed installer screen (some possible timeout netcfg set too high?) ... But I could go back to tty2 and reboot from there ... When configuring the network with the wrong NIC (eth1) and then *not* setting the machine name with umlauts does not crash the installer screen here: I simply change the NIC to eth0 and everything moves on as expected ... Not being sure whether all this really helps 'tho .. 5: The installer did not not recognise an attached SCSI disk, that was connnected to the machine via Firewire 400. I expected the disk on sda, and I tried to see it with mac-fdisk and with a simple ls /dev/ and then typing TAB to see the optional devices ... I chose Festplatten erkennen, something like detect hard discs, to no avail ... This time I switched off and on again the SCSI disk: When switching it on I got on tty4: kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 - 0-02:1023 /dev/hda inside the machine, was detected correctly with all partitions, as it seems ... Ditto with debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso, as it seems .. Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:02:10PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Thanks a lot for your work On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hi, I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go with my normal daily builds: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ Thanks to Sven Luther for the miboot package used to build these. Let me know if there are any problems; I haven't been able to test them myself. On a alubook 5,8, testing the debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso The report below seems to be true also for the debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso Just realised I'm in the wrong thread: my test reports in the current thread are referring to the isos in http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ My apologies for the confusion Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.17-rc3 (was: 2.6.17-rc2)
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:19:47PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 00:06 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: Did a testrun of 2.6.17-rc2 on my PowerBook 5,6 today. Subsequent testrun with 2.6.17-rc3. Tried to answer all the make oldconfig questions in a sensible way. ;) * It compiled and started without major problems. * I expected sound problems and yes, I had no sound. Should be fixed in current git Sound on is fine now. * When closing the lid, my powerbook did not go the sleep. Can you tell more ? is pbuttonsd running ? Do you see something in dmesg ? pbbuttons did not start. Error message was that /dev/adb would not exist, which is true, it does not exist. I rebuild the kernel and enabled CONFIG_ADB=y which I have thought from the description should not be necessary. Did not help either. I am running pbbuttonsd 0.6.6, maybe this is the reason. I will try pbbuttonsd 0.7.4 next. Just did so and it did not help. ERROR: The object '/dev/adb' doesn't exist. Hmmm /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid also does not exit. pgpXw07Adofr2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [RFC][Patch] Cirumvent appletouch fuzziness
Stelian Pop wrote: Very rarely the appletouch driver stops working completly (sometimes after a resume from suspend to ram, sometimes for other unknown reason) and I have to reload the module in order to make it work again. But this happens just once per week (and I use the laptop daily for 10+ hours), so it never bothered me enough to look more closely. I can confirm this, it happens also on my two G4 iBooks (12 1,33 GHz PowerBook6,7). The interesting thing is that it _never_ happens when I wake the iBook at home. And most of the times I wake it is at home. So maybe it depends on temperature changes or motion or something like this. It does not seem to depend on running on battery power, I often wake it at home without the power cord plugged in. The problem happens quite frequently when I'm in the train and for me it is very annoying. cu, Magnum -- Carl Magnus Rosenbaum M.A. Tel: 089 - 700 666 26 Administration - Programmierung - Weiterbildung Fax: 089 - 700 666 86 http://cmr.forestfactory.de/ Mobil: 0163 - 700 666 2 PGP Fingerprint: DEBC 3C99 EF1D 74F0 D4C7 EFF5 C268 3690 0EA1 7641 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again
On 5/3/06, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, FYI, the daily sid_d-i CD builds are working again for powerpc. Sorry for the long hiatus here! Among other things, those of you with tg3 network cards should be able to use these. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Are you going to activate the G-I daily build, too? -- Regards, EddyP = Imagination is more important than knowledge A.Einstein
Problem with login
Ciao a tutti, I have a problem with login: my password has an accented letter in it (I can't change easily because it's the same password to open the encrypted loopback with the home with libpam-mount). It worked until some upgrade ago but now it is no more accepted. I don't know where to add to have more verbose log. -- Ciao leandro Un esteso e normale uso della crittografia è il sistema più forte per rivendicare il diritto alla privacy nelle comunicazioni telematiche: come tutti i diritti e come i muscoli se non viene esercitato costantemente si atrofizza e va perso. pgp3C9cVrxING.pgp Description: PGP signature
Using kernel 2.6.17-rc2
Ciao a tutti, I am trying to use the kernel version as the subject, 2.6.17-rc2 with the patches to use the airport on an iBook G4 and I found some troubles with the sound and the sensors. Nothing of unexpected but I ask you: the new rc3 does resolv some of these problems? -- Ciao leandro Un esteso e normale uso della crittografia è il sistema più forte per rivendicare il diritto alla privacy nelle comunicazioni telematiche: come tutti i diritti e come i muscoli se non viene esercitato costantemente si atrofizza e va perso. pgpD3A6VKNy1R.pgp Description: PGP signature
2.6.16-1 hyper logging
Hi, 2.6.16-1 is a bit too much logging: kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: powermac/beep, Type: 18, Code: 2, Value: 0 Quite 20 lines per second ! Is there a var to change via /proc/sys or is it necessary to recompile the kernel with less logging ? -- Jean-Christophe Michel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:02 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do a backport if something promising comes on. Not sure i will have the time to fix it myself though. Prep has been relegated to an embedded platform that builds only in arch/ppc for now. It should still work there though. We might move it over to powerpc one day... You told me on irc that you broke prep on arch/ppc, did you fix it again ? Paulus did afaik Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.16-1 hyper logging
Jean-Christophe Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.6.16-1 is a bit too much logging: kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: powermac/beep, Type: 18, Code: 2, Value: 0 Quite 20 lines per second ! Is there a var to change via /proc/sys or is it necessary to recompile the kernel with less logging ? It looks like the evbug module is loaded, which is designed to do exactly this. Just unload the module. -- Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XGL powerbook 15
Hi, I'm trying to build the cvs according to the guide in the site: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xgl but event the very first package, cairo, give me problems. $ export CFLAGS=-O4 -march=ppc -mtune=ppc -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math $ export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS Shoudl the march and mtune be 'ppc', 'powerpc' nothin or what? The config says it's unrecognised anyways. ¤ CC=gcc; export CC; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/cvs/Xgl/ even tried CC=g++; CC=cc; same result ./autogen.sh: running `libtoolize --copy --force' Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'. ./autogen.sh: running `aclocal' ./autogen.sh: running `autoheader' ./autogen.sh: running `automake --add-missing' ./autogen.sh: running `autoconf' ./autogen.sh: running `./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/home/cvs/Xgl/' checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... g++ checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. Attached config.log Thanks in advanced. -- Federico Pistono Department of Computer Science - Verona, Italy http://www.federicopistono.org :: http://pain.altervista.org/flatnukeuwcad/ http://pain.altervista.org :: Linux Registered User #340392 Just rememberyou were a n00b yourself once... Speak for yourself. After my mother re-partitioned her drive and mounted the smaller one at /womb I was compiled from source. config.log Description: Binary data
