Fan control: installer OK, installed KO.

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:12:56PM +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : > > On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:20, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > On the other hand, I recommend to test wether they also stay silent on > > the installed system as well. > > Could you do this? Hi

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-12-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:45:18AM +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : > Hi, > > On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:04, Étienne Bersac wrote: > > Beware not to confuse iMac G5 rev A&B and rev C (among PowerMac G5). > > iMac G5 rev C (chip PowerMac 12,1) do not have yet their windfarm > > driver. Benh told

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
lts. (You don't have to do > a full install, the fans should be silent by the time you reach partioning at > latest...) On the other hand, I recommend to test wether they also stay silent on the installed system as well. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org

Bug#235152: distributed-net: Not reproduced with the latest packaged version.

2006-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
elp you to decide wether to close it or not. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin

CapsLock freezing Yaboot...

2006-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I just would like to mention a bug I reported recently: pressing CapsLock (on a PC keyborad, my Apple keyboard had a tragic accident), freezes yaboot. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399330 Does it happen on other machines? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
The absence of 3D drivers for Nvidia is still a pain, though). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...

2006-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
staller team to support the installation on G5 iMacs, how about making an specific installer? This would introduce the opportunity of supporting the Airport extreme card on machines on which the users kept an OSX system, or by asking them to insert the installation CD. Amicalement, -- Charles Plessy htt

Installing Etch without re-installing Tiger.

2006-11-13 Thread Charles Plessy
install Etch whereever partman left me some free space ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[solved ]Re: Bug#397143: mplayer: Does not manage to play a movie on PowerPC / GeForce FX Go5200.

2006-11-06 Thread Charles Plessy
7;-vo x11' worked fine, I was not aware of it before...) Now that I upgraded xorg and the nvidia driver, everything works perfectly, with '-vo sdl' or '-vo xv', and with out -vo option at all. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
nds on, and intalled the libxv, but it did not work. I then sent a bug (http://bugs.debian.org/397143) and the maintainer found out that I needed the '-vo x11' switch. Have a nice day. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
would not have removed correctly and which would interfere with the official package? Anyway, I had the same problem with debian-multimedia's mplayer as well. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
t【Desktop】$ totem *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xf7aac008 *** There must be something wrong on my install, as I never managed to play any movie in any encoding with any program. But I do not know where to search... -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -

Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge to etch PPC problem

2006-10-22 Thread Charles Plessy
"XkbModel" "ibook" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbOptions""lv3:lwin_switch" I found this on the archives of the mail list. I am sure that there is more information in other messages as well.

Re: no capslock on my sarge

2006-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
s are defined. I do not know if you can test the improved package without upgrading Xfree to Xorg, but soon you may be likely to do so anyway, when Etch is released. I think that much work has been made on the french keyboard. Bonne chance, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Sait

Re: Re xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable

2006-10-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:04:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:18:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > [...] > > Actually, I just realised that windows keyboards use three different > > keys with similar functions but different keycodes. > &

Re: Re xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable

2006-10-05 Thread Charles Plessy
] }; is Yen symbol / bar instead. I am wondering if it should not be like this on PC as well. I have screenshots of the MacOSX keyboard viewer with many combinations of alt/shift/crtl... so we can go in the details later if we have time. If you or somebody else could provide me some files to test, I

Re xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable

2006-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
nt than direct "kana" input, as it gives acces to slashes, pipes, and other vital symbols under unix. Unfortunately, they are the ones where the USA and japanese keyboards differ... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
It is the default japanese keyboard sold with the G5 iMac I bought almost two years ago. (Model A1048) If somebody could explain me how to turn this into something useful, I'll be happy to contribute. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan --

Building muscle on powerpc

2006-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
;) http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=muscle Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 17" Powerbook fan turns on when starting into Ubuntu Dapper

2006-08-10 Thread Charles Plessy
t; booting into Ubunto on startup? Dear Adam, isn't it that some fan drivers do not work when compiled as modules? At least it is the case on iMacs. Are you using a windfarm fan driver? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Debian installer/live stock kernels iMac G5

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Plessy
manual. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need HowTo to solve Ubuntu Breezy PPC system freeze at login on G5.

2006-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:31:40PM +0200, Brian Durant a écrit : > > What is artsd on Fedora or Suse? Is it KDE specific? Is that the > sound driver? I believe I need to disable the Ubuntu/Debian > (GNOME???) parallel to artsd. If a) is what I need to do, how do I > disable the driver in /et

Re: Need HowTo to solve Ubuntu Breezy PPC system freeze at login on G5.

2006-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:10:00AM +0200, Brian Durant a écrit : > >] (*,) Does anyone have a URL for a HowTo to solve the Ubuntu system freeze >at login after booting Ubuntu Breezy PPC on a G5 single (PowerMac 9.1) ? I >have searched extensively and not found a point by point solution

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, just a "me too" mail: Le Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:02:01AM +0200, Børge Holen a écrit : > I can also remember half way throught a ogg/mp3 playlist when it also > scrambled the output, this has only happened ONCE. I experience the same on my 8,1 powermac, but more systematically. It takes

Re: sgb powerpc binary package?

2006-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
bug, thus confirming to the maintainer that the operation will be trivial. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan > > Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find much on it. > > best regards > Wolfgang > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: kernel building: what am i doing wrong?

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Plessy
erience the same problem with kernels made "à la Debian", then you will be more sure that the problem is not the installation, but the kernel itself. PS: make-kpkg is in the package named "kernel-package". Good luck, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCR

[solved] Re: jEdit, java, powerpc..

2006-04-23 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:16:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > None of the IBM versions seem to work for me with > java-package from the stable release. It sounds like > the unstable release may work with the 32 bit version > however. Hi, thank you for the hint. I installed the 32bits ver

[OT] emacs and xml, compiling java programs.

2006-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
c. Regards, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jEdit, java, powerpc...

2006-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:56:53PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote : > > Based on these error messages, it looks like you are using the gnu > java runtime. I thought you were using the Blackdown jdk based on > the earlier messages in the thread. Hi, I thought I used Blackdown too ! > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: jEdit, java, powerpc...

2006-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:59:10PM +0200, ruben wrote : > > Did you try the IBM jdk? I made a package of the IBM 1.5 jdk with > make-jpkg. Hi, thank you for your answers. I did not manage installing the IBM javas: sorbet【src】$ make-jpkg ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc64.tgz Creating temporary dire

jEdit, java, powerpc...

2006-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
his list? If yes, how did you manage? Best regards, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[works] Re: sound on quad powermac/latest powerbooks/imacs

2006-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:48:11PM +0200, Eduardo Trápani wrote : > >>$ insmod ./soundbus/i2sbus/i2sbus.ko > > > >sorbet【snd-aoa】$ sudo /sbin/insmod ./soundbus/soundbus.ko > >sorbet【snd-aoa】$ sudo /sbin/insmod ./soundbus/i2sbus/i2sbus.ko > >insmod: error inserting './soundbus/i2sbus/i2sbus.ko': -1

Re: sound on quad powermac/latest powerbooks/imacs

2006-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 02:31:03PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote : > I have already someone testing on 8,1, but just fyi: > > $ sudo apt-get install cogito > $ cd /wherever/ > $ cg clone http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/snd-aoa.git/ snd-aoa > $ cd snd-aoa > $ make > $ insmod ./soundbus/soundbus.ko T

Re: sound on quad powermac/latest powerbooks/imacs

2006-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:51:09PM +0200, Eduardo Trápani wrote : > Hi, > > >I've been rewriting the linux apple sound driver completely with a much > >nicer layout :) > > >It isn't really to be used too widely now but if anyone is motivated to > >help hacking there are some things that need sort

Re: linux-image-2.6.16-rc5-powerpc: modprobe snd-powermac segfaults

2006-03-14 Thread Charles Plessy
, it would be safe to comment it out from the debian-installer for the moment, because when using the tab-completion, the computer tryes to beep, and wakes up the bug of the sound module...) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ndiswrapper for mac ?

2006-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:29:40PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote : > > I was just wondering if there was a sort of ndiswrapper for macintoshes, > > because I have no sound on mine, and it is getting a bit boring... > > Not as such - Linuxant has closed source drivers for some stuff, and other > peo

Re: Newbie planning vanilla Debian 31r1a-powerpc net install.

2006-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:44:04AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > > 1) Which option "install-*" do I use to start an install for the > following: Hi, What options can you chose ? any finishing by 4 or 64 should be fine. > You shouldn't have to be a guru to get a plain vanilla Debian > syste

Re: Yaboot Man pages on Internet?

2006-01-26 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:40:02PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > > Here is what my yaboot conf file looks like: > > ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: > ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ Maybe you could look for a way to have more than one entry in the menu for osX. T

Re: Yaboot Man pages on Internet?

2006-01-26 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:22:33AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > > Since yaboot is the only boot loader for New World Macs, it is > amazing that there isn't a better HowTo or other form of > documentation about "device=" to get OS X on a SATA drive to boot. > Can't remember how I got it, but

Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > OK, now I have gotten Ubuntu installed and running on my Power Mac > G5. However, I have run into a problem with Yaboot and OS X. Yaboot > simply can't load OS X. it tries, and the screen flickers, but > nothing happens. After t

Re: G5 fan revving problems.

2006-01-20 Thread Charles Plessy
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:09:17PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > Hi, I am new to the list. I joined manly because I was looking for a > list that would have a PPC centric bent so that I could discuss > problems I run into. I have a 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5, running OS X Tiger Hi, Maybe this info

Sound on iMac G5 (8,1)

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I tried a self-compiled 2.6.15-1 debian kernel which I patched to enable sound support: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc64/patch?id=3924 When I try to load the snd_powermac module (which crashes the machine on non-patched kernels), I encounter the following error: sorbet:~# modpr

[solved] A stupid question about windfarm

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:35:44AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote : > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 23:32 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I installed sid's 2.6.15-1 kernel on a 8,1 powermac, and modprobed > > windfarm_pm81. The module loads, but

Re: A stupid question about windfarm

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:35:44AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote : > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 23:32 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I installed sid's 2.6.15-1 kernel on a 8,1 powermac, and modprobed > > windfarm_pm81. The module loads, but

A stupid question about windfarm

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I installed sid's 2.6.15-1 kernel on a 8,1 powermac, and modprobed windfarm_pm81. The module loads, but noting changes. Google searches with keywords as G5 and fan control point me to the kernel patches. Am I missing some userland software ?? Best, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: ppc64 missing from upstream 2.6.15-rc6?

2006-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
ng would bring me closer to the point where I would use debian for daily purposes. happynewyearly, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan http://charles.plessy.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?

2005-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:32:56PM -0500, Percy Zahl wrote : > Hi all- > > I tried to boot a 2.6.14.3-ppc kernel on a new iMac G5 (20"/2.1GHz) > PowerMac12,1, it crashed after about 4 or 5 lines of kernel messages, > and the OF promt was back scrolling endless need to manually > power of

System freezes on iMac G5

2005-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I installed debian on my iMac G5, and while I eventually overcame the bug in testing's yaboot[1], I faced strange freezes on the system freshly installed. I finally figured out that the system was crashing when I was pressing the TAB key on console, because the shell then wants to emit

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:52:19AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote : > The problem is best tackled by actually recognising the type of device > and it's mac address. Does that mean that a bug should be opened on debian-installer ? -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:10:31AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote : > > Network device ordering has never been guaranteed nor stable. It depends > on things like link order, module load ordering, or on async probe > busses like firewire or USB can depend on the phase of the moon. > > The bug

Re: Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:26:58AM -0800, john fisher wrote : > I don't have a very good answer on the Sarge kernel or package. I tried > the 31R04 netinstall iso, which is Sid? This 31R04 crashed on boot. I > *think* this means the Sid kernel won't run on the latest PowerMac G5 > dual proc. > > S

Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:20:13AM +0100, Nicolas Hognon wrote : > > > I think that you have to tell partman that the partition #2 is a neworld > >bootstrap partition. Just select its as if you wanted to put a filesystem > >on > >it, bootstrap is in the list. > > > >Partman will then format it,

Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 06:40:04PM +0100, Nicolas Hognon wrote : > Hello, Hello, > 3. here the partition table > IDE3 master (hdc) - 20.6 GB IBM-DTLA-305020 > #1 32.3 KB Apple > #2 1.0 MB boot untitled > #3 19.7 GB ext3 untitled / > #4 873.7 MB swap swap swap > yaboot-installer: inf

Did not manage to start the graphical installer on an iMac G5

2005-12-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi, I tried the latest graphical installer (december 7), but it failed to start the graphical system. Here is a sample of the logs: kernel: ioctl32(debconf:1234): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(0004700){00} arg(0f394e70) on /dev/fb/0 It is repeated with a different pid, so obviously the graphic system c

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