Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > What was on this machine before? Is it possible that you are in fact > running inside an existing LPAR config, which might have limited memory > assigned? > > -- > Len Sorensen Len, you were right about it

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 03:22:46PM -0400, Adam Stouffer wrote: > So I have grub2 booting the same kernel but again the same result. > Only 2Gb available. What was on this machine before? Is it possible that you are in fact running inside an existing LPAR config, which might have limited memory

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

> Good question. I installed the machine with grub2 originally years ago, > so I didn't have to try (I wanted MD raid1 which yaboot couldn't handle > at that time, so I wanted grub2 to work, no matter what it took). Took > some work at the time, debugging disk issues and other issues in grub2, >

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:45:10AM -0400, Adam Stouffer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Lennart Sorensen > wrote > > > > > > > > That ought to be working. I know the p520 I worked with before it > > worked fine. > > > > Which bootloader are you using? I

Re: problems with wheezy and xbmc

Thanks, well, i basically never had problems with wheezy, besides minor issues. also on powerpc wheezy was stable ; with jessie a whole different story, so i try to stick with what works well for my hardware ... but i see cannot remain indefinitely on older software. did already upgrade but

Re: problems with wheezy and xbmc

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 04:48:27PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote: > Thank you very much, > > i would have installed now > > > vdpau-va-driver > > > > and output changes > > rich@debian:~$ xbmc > libva: VA-API version 0.32.0 > libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0 > libva: Trying to open

Re: problems with wheezy and xbmc

Thank you very much, i would have installed now vdpau-va-driver and output changes rich@debian:~$ xbmc libva: VA-API version 0.32.0 libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so libva: va_openDriver() returns -1 but the

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote > > > > That ought to be working. I know the p520 I worked with before it > worked fine. > > Which bootloader are you using? I use grub2, just in case the bootloader > has anything to do with memory detection

Re: problems with wheezy and xbmc

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:57:02PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote: > Hello , > > i have installed Debian Wheezy on my Powermac G5 Quad. > > > please help me to solve one problem i have with graphics. whether i use xbmc > or kodi or mpv for videoplayback, it always comes with rasterised graphics; >

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:14:27AM -0400, Adam Stouffer wrote: > No LPAR or VM, running just "bare metal". I had AIX installed previously > and it recognized 16Gb. > > uname -a > Linux new-host-4 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 > (2017-03-07) ppc64 GNU/Linux > > lscpu >

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > Well I know running a 64 bit kernel on that model, does see 16GB ram. > But I was doing that with no LPAR or anything else, just Debian installed > straight onto the machine (IBM support people have a

problems with wheezy and xbmc

Hello , i have installed Debian Wheezy on my Powermac G5 Quad. please help me to solve one problem i have with graphics. whether i use xbmc or kodi or mpv for videoplayback, it always comes with rasterised graphics; no problem with vlc or mplayer or videoplayback directly on youtube.

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:07:49PM -0400, Adam Stouffer wrote: > Hello all, I'm new to the list and just installed jessie on my IBM > 8203-E4A box. It's a dual core 4.2Ghz with 16Gb of memory. > > But anyhow like the subject says the kernel is only reporting 2Gb of > available memory. I tried

Re: debian-installer: virtio support for powerpc cdrom/netboot installs

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:54:01AM +, Jonni O'Gorman wrote: > can you tell me how to unsubscribe from this list... https://lists.debian.org/ -- Len Sorensen

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

With 3 Gb assigned to LPAR (p7) it looks correct: gasha@power:~$ dmesg | grep Memory [ 0.00] physicalMemorySize = 0xc000 [ 0.00] Node 0 Memory: 0x0-0xc000 [ 0.00] Memory: 2811776K/3145728K available (7360K kernel code, 1792K rwdata, 1840K rodata, 960K init, 2071K bss,

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

It is 64-bit kernel? $ uname -a $ lscpu I think that i never tried more than 1 Gb RAM for test linux, because development AIX needs more RAM... Should try that on P7 or P8. Gasha On 03/23/2017 03:07 AM, Adam Stouffer wrote: Hello all, I'm new to the list and just installed jessie on my IBM

Re: Shutting down my PowerBook G4 doesn't really shut down?

* Richard Kuenz [2017-03-23 10:55 +0100]: > Hllo, > > i have installed jessie on powerbook g4 1,67 and am very happy with sound > and video. > can someone please show me how to achieve sleep when i shutdown lid? pbbuttonsd should help here. > ps. there is supposedly an

Re: Shutting down my PowerBook G4 doesn't really shut down?

Hllo, i have installed jessie on powerbook g4 1,67 and am very happy with sound and video. can someone please show me how to achieve sleep when i shutdown lid? thank you very much, rich ps. there is supposedly an error with those powerbooks as many don't recognize the second 1gb ram bank.

Re: debian-installer: virtio support for powerpc cdrom/netboot installs

can you tell me how to unsubscribe from this list... On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:13 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Frederic! > > > virtio modules are more and more used in VMs and it would be nice to > have those > > into the netboot and cdrom installers

Re: Shutting down my PowerBook G4 doesn't really shut down?

On 03/23/2017 10:43 AM, PhiLLip Pi wrote: > For some reason, now the old PB G4 shuts down. I will check if it > happens again. I would recommend hooking up a serial console or a netconsole to watch the kernel buffer while the machine is shutting down. This way you should be able to track down at

Re: Shutting down my PowerBook G4 doesn't really shut down?

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:04:42AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:57 AM, PhiLLip Pi wrote: > > I noticed every time I do a shut down from Debian PPC stable/Jessie, it > > doesn't fully shut down. I see its screen go black and stuff. I can't >

Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:07:49PM -0400, Adam Stouffer wrote: > Hello all, I'm new to the list and just installed jessie on my IBM > 8203-E4A box. It's a dual core 4.2Ghz with 16Gb of memory. > > But anyhow like the subject says the kernel is only reporting 2Gb of > available memory. I tried

Re: Shutting down my PowerBook G4 doesn't really shut down?

Hi, On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:57 AM, PhiLLip Pi wrote: > I noticed every time I do a shut down from Debian PPC stable/Jessie, it > doesn't fully shut down. I see its screen go black and stuff. I can't > even wake it up with keys (can't even ctrl+alt+F1 keys), trackpad and > its