Re: iMac G3's screen: colours, white balance, ...

2009-04-21 Thread jc . sid
Thanks for your replies. I finaly found the answer: These iMac G3 have a hardware brightness control. I had to open it and I found two brighness and focus (don't touch it!) controls, at the left bottom side of the screen. It was just hidden. I'll post any other difficult problem later ;)

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: The problem on ppc 64 bit architecture was that Debian already has a 32 bit port and it is more efficient on 64 bit architectures, because it uses more efficiently L2 cache on non FP instructions. Yeah, I know :) I

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, The only problem I had was trying to run IBM 64 bit SDK3.0 for CELL (from Barcelona's Supercomputing Center) on 32 bit Debian. There ain't much of 64-bit external depends in IBM SDK, since it brings in most of the stuff. Off the top of my head I remember only libnuma (besides 64-bit

ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
Hi there. While digging through d-i, I've noticed some signs of ppc64 port (which was, as far as I remember, a heroic attempt to make a 64-bit userland Debian port). Do we actually need it and is anybody going to support/maintain it? -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hi Wart, I have been running ppc64 port from http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/ and it was fine when I tried it. While digging through d-i, I've noticed some signs of ppc64 port (which was, as far as I remember, a heroic attempt to make a 64-bit userland Debian port). Actually it was

Re: Wifi configuration Debian Lenny Ibook G3

2009-04-21 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, people. It's been a long time since I last followed debian-powerpc, but I am back to my activities. I have one question, though. On 02/10/2009 02:31 AM, Geoff Simmons wrote: The original Apple AirPort Card uses a Hermes chipset, which is supported by the orinoco driver provided in

Re: Wifi on a tray loading iMac, is it possible?

2009-04-21 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Gunther. On 02/12/2009 12:51 PM, Gunther Furtado wrote: Sorry for the OTish, but I wonder if it is possible to have wifi working on an iMac 333 (tray loading) with no airport card slot running debian. So, is there a wifi USB adapter that would work on debian-powerpc? Are there other

Re: Wifi on a tray loading iMac, is it possible?

2009-04-21 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hi Rogerio, 2009/4/21 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: Hi, Gunther. On 02/12/2009 12:51 PM, Gunther Furtado wrote: Sorry for the OTish, but I wonder if it is possible to have wifi working on an iMac 333 (tray loading) with no airport card slot running debian. So, is there a wifi USB

Re: Wifi configuration Debian Lenny Ibook G3

2009-04-21 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hi, 2009/4/21 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: Hi there, people. It's been a long time since I last followed debian-powerpc, but I am back to my activities. I have one question, though. On 02/10/2009 02:31 AM, Geoff Simmons wrote: The original Apple AirPort Card uses a Hermes chipset,

Re: Wifi configuration Debian Lenny Ibook G3

2009-04-21 Thread Esteban Monge
2009/4/21 Gunther Furtado gunfurt...@gmail.com Hi, 2009/4/21 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: Hi there, people. It's been a long time since I last followed debian-powerpc, but I am back to my activities. I have one question, though. On 02/10/2009 02:31 AM, Geoff Simmons wrote:

[RFH] Update of Debian Installer for 2.6.29

2009-04-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello arch porters, Most arches has 2.6.29 packages ready (AFAIK only hppa lacks them right now) and I also did most changes for all arches on SVN to get 2.6.29 updating as easy as possible. Now, we need porters' help. Please check your pet arch and update the kernel and modules for 2.6.29. This