Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
I know there are still powerpc users who run Debian. I am one of them and love to see it continue. How can I help? Thanks! On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Hector Oron wrote: > [Add to CC debian-wb-team@ and r...@debian.org] > > Hello, > > 2016-06-05 12:01 GMT+02:00

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Hector Oron
[Add to CC debian-wb-team@ and r...@debian.org] Hello, 2016-06-05 12:01 GMT+02:00 Niels Thykier : > Hi members of DSA, Security, RT and all porters. > > While the freeze still seem far away, I think it is time to start with > the architecture qualifications. Excellent! Thanks

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016, at 18:37, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > There is openmainframe project https://www.openmainframeproject.org/ , > which I believe offers access to z/VM instances hosted by Marist > colledge. > > At the openmainframeproject EU meetup, it was indicated that SUSE > joined with

Re: Radeon driver not works on PPC with X800

2016-06-15 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
try at yaboot this: Linux radeon.agpmode=-1 On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:15 PM, TCH wrote: > Hi! > > I have an old G4 MDD, with an X800 card. I've just installed Debian Jessie > and tried to breathe life into the 2d acceleration, but without success. If > i install

Radeon driver not works on PPC with X800

2016-06-15 Thread TCH
Hi! I have an old G4 MDD, with an X800 card. I've just installed Debian Jessie and tried to breathe life into the 2d acceleration, but without success. If i install "firmware-linux-nonfree", then it loads the "r420_cp.bin", but then i only got a black screen after boot and the machine freezes

Re: Airport gone

2016-06-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: the work around is easy enough! important is that it works at all. I will now test with 4.6 how wifi survives latop sleep and play with the new firmware again. Thanks all for now! it survives badly. I don't know how kernel 4.5 worked, since I used it only

Re: Newbie, iMac G3 600MHz 1GB Ram, black screen

2016-06-15 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi Alex, iMac G3's monitor is very sensitive to the sync frequency: you must create an xorg.conf with correct values for HorizSync and VertRefresh. I can come later with the details, but they can be found in some old threads, too. Risto

Re: Newbie, iMac G3 600MHz 1GB Ram, black screen

2016-06-15 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
What is your video card? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Alex Santos wrote: > > Hello > > Source: debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso > Using entire 40GB HD for the install. > > I tried to install only the utilities and i go as far as a single user prompt.

Newbie, iMac G3 600MHz 1GB Ram, black screen

2016-06-15 Thread Alex Santos
Hello Source: debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso Using entire 40GB HD for the install. I tried to install only the utilities and i go as far as a single user prompt. If I install any of the GUIs the computer goes as far as a black screen. At the boot prompt is there something I can enter to edit