Installing Debian PPC 3.1rc2 Sarge onto a PowerMac 8600

2006-06-17 Thread TuskenTower
Hello All, I spent my last weekend installing Linux/GNU OS onto my PowerMac 8600 250MHz/385MB. I'm brilliant (reads: I don't read all of the documentation, especially when I should, so feel free to correct me) and slogged through an attempt of installing OpenSuSE 10 PPC without success. The sto

Re: Yaboot AWOL with newest Etch install on G5.

2006-06-17 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 18 June 2006 01:01, Brian Durant wrote: > On Jun 18, 2006, at 00:48, Børge Holen wrote: > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 23:35, Brian Durant wrote: > >> I just installed Etch (beta 2?) on my G5. No sign of problems with > >> yaboot at the end of the install, but when I start the computer, > >

Re: Yaboot AWOL with newest Etch install on G5.

2006-06-17 Thread Brian Durant
On Jun 18, 2006, at 00:48, Børge Holen wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 23:35, Brian Durant wrote: I just installed Etch (beta 2?) on my G5. No sign of problems with yaboot at the end of the install, but when I start the computer, there is no OpenFirmware menu for choosing between OS X (10.4.6)

Re: Yaboot AWOL with newest Etch install on G5.

2006-06-17 Thread Børge Holen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 23:35, Brian Durant wrote: > I just installed Etch (beta 2?) on my G5. No sign of problems with > yaboot at the end of the install, but when I start the computer, > there is no OpenFirmware menu for choosing between OS X (10.4.6) and > Debian Linux. I have also tried holdin

Yaboot AWOL with newest Etch install on G5.

2006-06-17 Thread Brian Durant
I just installed Etch (beta 2?) on my G5. No sign of problems with yaboot at the end of the install, but when I start the computer, there is no OpenFirmware menu for choosing between OS X (10.4.6) and Debian Linux. I have also tried holding down the option key at boot, but no penguin visibl

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: totem, xine: totem and xine SIGILL on startup [powerpc without altivec]]

2006-06-17 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Can please a powerpc porter test recent xine-lib and xine-ui (uploaded today) and test if this bug (#321678) is still present? thanks in advance.. Gruesse, Reinhard - Forwarded message from Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bu

Re: Re: The powerpc architecture ubiquitous problem: sound

2006-06-17 Thread Eugen Dedu
I use "alsamixer" to turn off DRC. But each two reboots I need to turn it off again, because the system reboots with DRC on. Do you have the same problem? Doing 'alsactl store' with DRC disabled should take care of this -- the alsa packages install hooks and whatnot so that 'alsactl restore' i