Re: Did my hard drive fail cause of Linux?

2006-05-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Clive" == Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Clive> On (21/05/06 21:27), ben wrote: >> My 5400 rpm 80gb ATA drive in my powerbook just failed the >> tilted the laptop, eventually it got so bad that the drive >> wouldn't read without rocking my laptop back and forth.

Re: [OT] emacs and xml, compiling java programs.

2006-04-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Charles" == Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:22:20AM -0300, Rogério Brito Charles> wrote : >> P.S.: Wouln't Emacs be suitable for your needs? Charles> Actually I am using Emacs with the nxml mode, but Charles> completion do

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
>>>>> "Pancho" == Pancho Horrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pancho> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:30:31AM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Pancho> wrote: Pancho> I have attached xorg.conf, config-2.6.16.5 (vanilla Pancho> linux), and a list of in

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
>>>>> "Pancho" == Pancho Horrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pancho> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:20:20PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Pancho> wrote: >> One issue with X (xorg) is that the monitor (a Sony flat panel, >> SDM S204) n

Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi folks, I have a very straight forward Debian etch installation on a G4 Mac Mini. One issue with X (xorg) is that the monitor (a Sony flat panel, SDM S204) never seems to go into the sleep state. The screen seems to blank and all, but the monitor continues to run at full power. If I issue an

Installation produces a strange /etc/modules file

2006-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I just installed etch on my "new" [1] G4 Mac Mini using a recent daily build. Installation was really smooth (and the Mac Mini may well be the most enjoyable Linux computer I've over owned). The odd thing was this /etc/modules file I was left with: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at

Re: d-i daily build fails when building initrd (PowerMac7,3)

2006-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Please file an installation report, CCed to Sven> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure thing: #359164 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359164 I am presuming some one with a better understanding of the issue can reassign it

d-i daily build fails when building initrd (PowerMac7,3)

2006-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi folks, I've been away from my computer for a few months, but decided to give the latest d-i netinstall daily build a spin today (March 26). Besides the obvious known problem (default mirror) I find that a powerpc64 install on a PowerMac7,3 (Dual 2Ghz G5) fails when trying to install the kerne

Buildd donation? (Was: Please set MLton to build on malo)

2005-12-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Wesley" == Wesley W Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wesley> For whatever reason, voltaire continues to have only 320M Wesley> of RAM. This means it cannot build MLton. I would Wesley> appreciate it if MLton were blacklisted by voltaire so Wesley> that voltaire will not

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

2005-12-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> nvidiafb is hosed, so he should either try offb Sven> (video=ofonly), or the disable accel trick Attilio mentioned Sven> earlier. Hi Sven, Niether trick worked on my G5. I've come down with some serious keyboard related st

Re: How to compile custom kernel 2.6 for ppc64

2005-12-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Eduardo" == Eduardo Trápani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eduardo> I've tried everything I could think of, "apt-get source Eduardo> --build", "make-kpk", "debian/rules binary", Eduardo> "dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc" but either the kernel does not Eduardo> boot or I cannot install

Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Ken" == Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ken> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, john fisher wrote: >> boot: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED],f200/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/k2-sata@)/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4,/boot/vmlinux Ken> John, forgive me if this is a stupid question - Ken>

Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "john" == john fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> Shamal, the only two netinstalls that will load are the john> latest testing, run as expert64 and YDL's run as john> install-g5. The older sarge stuff just crashes. Do I have john> the wrong Sarge stuff? i.e. is there a

Re: etch graphical installer does not work on G5 PowerMac?

2005-12-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
+1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >>On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 08:05 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> >> >>>Yes, it is an Nvidia GeForce card, unfortunately that is what Apple >>>sells with these machines. I'll swap it when I can but for now I'm

Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "john" == john fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> Thanks guys. Shyamal or Sven can you walk me through the john> fix? If I don't get this working I have to return the G5 to john> the store. Hi John, If it is that serious, just use the sarge installer net install disk. Do

Re: etch graphical installer does not work on G5 PowerMac?

2005-12-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "john" == john fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> Not sure if etch is the one on the netinstall CD? Anyway, I john> got only the 64 bit version to install, but then it worked john> with nvidia on my G5 dual-2.0 Apple box. The latest YDL john> 4.0.91 (not free) also wor

Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:50:26PM -0800, john fisher wrote: >> >> new, non-dual core, dual-proc 2.0 PowerMac G5 latest testing >> debian ppc netinstall ( 11-28) >> >> >> 1) install base system, chose d

Re: etch graphical installer does not work on G5 PowerMac?

2005-12-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 06:54:47PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> I tried booting the graphical installer (the file mini.iso >> dowloaded from >> http

etch graphical installer does not work on G5 PowerMac?

2005-12-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
I tried booting the graphical installer (the file mini.iso dowloaded from http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/alpha/powerpc/) on a dual G5 (PowerMac7,3) today. It would just hang after trying to start the processor (similar to what the old sarge installer kernel did early on). Is this a

Re: Installing Debian on a RS/6000 Question

2005-11-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sandy" == Sandy Elaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sandy> Tried both images ... still no luck. Not booting from the Sandy> CD's, it only comes into AIX. Sandy> [...deleted...] Sandy> I've read about installing the kernel on the Server first, Sandy> but they all explain

Re: cant install yaboot on G5

2005-11-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Enrique" == Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> Hi! Yesterday i tried to install debian on a new imac G5 Enrique> (20"). Enrique> [..deleted...] Enrique> With etch beta1 netinstall iso: install64 Enrique> video=ofonly. everything wents ok, until finish

[PATCH] PowerMac install page has outdated information

2005-10-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> No way, there is no chance of a 2.4 kernel supporting more Sven> hardware than the 2.6 kernels, the only reason to keep it at Sven> all was for those people needing external modules which Sven> where not rewritten for 2

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> I just uploaded 2.6.14-rc5 packages to experimental, which Sven> are a test run before 2.6.14 gets released and the Sven> corresponding packages go to unstable. Since they are NEW i Sven> have made them available under

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> the G4) you also have the option of choosing a 2.4 kernel in >> case your hardware is really o

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
>>>>> "Rogério" == Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rogério> On Oct 22 2005, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> as +little as 600 to 700M for a really basic system, but you'll Rogério> I question the 600 to 700M figures for a "

Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi all, http://www.us.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac is quite out of date. I use new Mac hardware (G5), and have little experience with minimal installs of Debian since potato. Comments on the patch below would be appreciated. I will send this to debian-www after any corrections that might be

Re: Dual G5 turns off after a while

2005-08-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Daniel" == Daniel Jedecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> So i testet Kernel 2.6.12.5 from sid. Same Problem Daniel> here. G5 tturns out after 3 hours. i tried to compile my Daniel> of kernel from kernel.org but the linking failes. Hi Daniel, Could you email me your dmesg o

Re: [PATCH} Re: www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update

2005-08-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> On Friday 26 August 2005 14:48, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> Does it need to change? Patrick> The model 260 is most definitely a 7043-260 (aka Patrick> 43P-260). Hi Frans, Based

Re: Building ppc64 2.6.12 the Debian way?

2005-08-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> The debian patch is already included in the debian Sven> linux-source-2.6.12 package, so you don'ty need to re-apply Sven> them. Thanks Sven! I was confused by the description of linux-patch-debian-2.6.12 at http://packages.d

Building ppc64 2.6.12 the Debian way? (Was: Dual G5 turns off after a while)

2005-08-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Have a look at : Sven> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323724 Hi Sven/all, I'm trying to build the ppc64 kernel using the toolchain in sid (gcc-3.4 is biarch now, right?) to isolate my problem . But I get this v

Re: [PATCH} Re: www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update

2005-08-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ralph" == Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralph> Hummm, shouldn't it be 7043-260 instead of 7044-260 in the Ralph> power3 section ? I don't know since I'm no familiar with the IBM hardware. The Sarge install manual says "RS/6000 7044-170, 7044-260, and 7044-270" and I stuck with t

Re: Dual G5 turns off after a while

2005-08-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Am 23.08.2005 um 16:47 schrieb Shyamal Prasad: >> >I've had no luck booting this kernel on my dual G5 PowerMac >> >7,3. I >updated #319986 for this >> > &g

Re: Dual G5 turns off after a while

2005-08-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> You probably need linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64 version Sven> 2.6.12-5, which was the first one to enable : Sven> CONFIG_THERM_PM72. Hi Sven, I've had no luck booting this kernel on my dual G5 PowerMac 7,3. I updated #319

Re: [PATCH} Re: www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update

2005-08-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Frans" == Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frans> On Monday 22 August 2005 01:48, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> The patch below updates the powerpc install page to describe >> the status as in Sarge (i.e. it reflects the installation >> ma

[PATCH} Re: www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update

2005-08-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"FJP" == Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FJP> http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install >> I can try this next - I don't run a lot of old Mac (legacy) >> hardware or other PowerPC systems, but it should be easy to at >> least sync with the install manual (at leas

Re: www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update

2005-08-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Frans" == Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FJP> http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install >> I can try this next - I don't run a lot of old Mac (legacy) >> hardware or other PowerPC systems, but it should be easy to at >> least sync with the install manual (at le

www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update (was: Some weirdness on debian release sites)

2005-08-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
FJP = "Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote FJP> Holger Wansing noted on the d-www list (see mail below) that FJP> the port pages for PowerPC are in dire need of an update FJP> because they and the links on them still refer to Woody and FJP> seem not to have been updated for

2.6.12 debian powerpc kernels and ppc64 ...

2005-07-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Sven> I would like testers who want to test new powerpc kernels on Sven> ppc64 machines : Sven> These i have uploaded here : Sven> http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/kernel-image-2.6.12-sven_1_powerpc.deb Sven> http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/kernel-image-2.6.12-

Any supported 802.11a USB/Firewire cards on powerpc?

2005-06-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, It turns out I need to run 802.11a these days (not enough of the 2.4 Ghz spectrum around my house!). So, airport hardware is not an option (not that it always works with Linux anyway). For my powerpc (mac) based systems I'm stumped. Is there anyone out there that has used an 802.11a device w

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: G5 owners, please test ... Re: ppc64 pseries 2.6.11-2 .deb kernel available.

2005-06-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:33:10PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> It works. But it is missing the fan control patches from the >> sarge debian kernel, so my fans are going full b

Re: G5 owners, please test ... Re: ppc64 pseries 2.6.11-2 .deb kernel available.

2005-06-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:15:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Thanks to the great job of Jeff Bailey and Matthias Klose, who >> provided a set of gcc-3.4/glibc-2.3.5 based biarch toolchain, i >>

Re: [Netboot] Ethernet Driver on 1.8GHz G5?

2005-03-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Francois" == Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francois> I'm now blocked with the Ethernet driver: debian Francois> installer can not detect automatically which ethernet Francois> card my G5 is using, so it asks me to pick a Francois> driver. I've tried sungem, sungen_phy

Re: Adding a network card...

2005-03-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Hey everybody! Wanting to throw a spare RTL-8139 NIC Charles> into my G5 PPC, it looks like I don't have 8139too in Charles> /lib/modules/2.6.8-power4-smp/kernel/net, how can I get Charles> it there? The 8139too

Re: Adding a network card...

2005-03-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Hey everybody! Wanting to throw a spare RTL-8139 NIC Charles> into my G5 PPC, it looks like I don't have 8139too in Charles> /lib/modules/2.6.8-power4-smp/kernel/net, how can I get Charles> it there? The 8139too

Re: Hard Disk install on a new PowerMac G5

2005-03-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Francois" == Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francois> downloaded initrd.gz and a kernel image (vmlinux) from Francois> the daily build of the netboot installer for newworld Francois> powerpc [2] (on Sven's pages I think). Francois> [2] Francois> http://people.debia

Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> The rc2 powerpc floppy-2.4 installer is 1,474,560 bytes AFAICT. "bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bluesbravo> i am sorry, but i am a little confusedhow does a bluesbravo> file that big fit on a floppy?? am i doing something bluesbravo> wrong?? if

Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bluesbravo> Thank you for the helpi tried using RAWRITE on a bluesbravo> pc, but i kept getting an error on the boot.img. the What is the error? bluesbravo> file is 1.40 MG, but it wont fit on a 1.44 bluesbravo> flo

Re: Installing SMP kernel

2005-02-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arnór> Hi, I just installed Debian on the xserve I've been Arnór> battling with for the last few days, foregoing raid support Arnór> and such. I used "install-power4" which installs the Arnór> package kernel-image-2.6.8-

Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bluesbravo> dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync bluesbravo> above is the instruction from the install manual; the bluesbravo> floppy drive on my fedora is /mnt/floppy, which i used bluesbravo> instead of /dev/

Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bluesbravo> keep the data secure. is there a good install how-to bluesbravo> for sarge that you could link me to?? or, could you Have you tried the sarge install manual yet? The latest and greatest can be found at http://d-i.a

Re: RAID

2005-02-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arnór> On 21.2.2005, at 15:07, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> It is probably possible to set up your RAID partitions manually >> by using the command line on the installers virtual >> te

Re: RAID

2005-02-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arnór> The problem is that when selecting the raid tool it Arnór> complains that there are no linux raid autodetect volumes Arnór> found...and I cant select that from the Use as menu in the Arnór> partitioner. My unders

PowerMac7,3 insists it has 0 batteries and no AC power!

2005-02-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I have a PowerMac7,3 machine (dual G5 970FX). It does not run Linux continously just yet. So I installed anacron as I do for all such computers. This is a stock Debian sarge installation (in particular, I do not compile my own kernel). Over the last few weeks I've noticed the dlocate databas

Re: d-i on a second hard drive in a G5

2005-02-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] That looks like the first drive to me. And at this point my knowledge of powerpc linux is certainly being stretchedbut it looks like the installer is getting the device wrong if thi

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Benjamin" == Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benjamin> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:00 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> >> The bootstrap partition *must* go before the Mac OS X partition >> if you want yaboot to work "

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> My suggestion for the installer would be the following: Pedro> Close to the end of the process the installer asked me Pedro> where to install yaboot. But the only option I got was Pedro> /dev/sdb2. It's because it wa

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> Almost right. "tell it to boot off the second disk..." I Pedro> imagine that's what I do when I click the Linux icon in the Pedro> graphical boot menu, correct? I assume the little text boot Pedro> menu that follows i

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> Just to recap, OS X lives in the first hard drive (SATA) Pedro> sdb1. Debian was installed in the second hard drive (SATA) Pedro> sdb2, with yaboot in the second partition. I think I will Pedro> read about this openfir

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> I installed Debian in a second hard drive. Did I miss Pedro> something during the install? Well, sounds like you got past the first problem which was that you were using the RC2 installer (which does not boot). I would guess

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-01-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pedro> During the installation I'm experiencing the symptoms Pedro> described in Bug #287030 Pedro> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/12/msg01085.html). I'm Pedro> using a d-i image from Jan 15/2005. Did you choose i

Re: New install questions..

2005-01-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Thanks again friend! That shows my processor info, but it Charles> is almost as if there is only one processor, how can I Charles> see that the machine is using both? Ahyou are probably running the default kernel

Re: New install questions..

2005-01-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Hey everybody! Just installed sarge on my Dual 2Ghz G5 Charles> processor PowerMac and I am wanting to make sure that the Charles> hardware is being used properly... I really just want to Charles> make sure that bo

Re: Sarge on a G5?

2005-01-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Just booted the latest d-i :) netinst and it hangs on Charles> 'opening display: yada yada' after i hit enter at the Charles> boot: prompt... any suggestions? Oh yes, the things I've started taking for granted after a

Re: Sarge on a G5?

2005-01-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Thinking... how do I eject the CR/DVD drive on my Charles> PowerMac G5 after install? Since there is no manual Charles> button It will eject by itself, and then automatically reinsert on reboot. It's kinda wierd ;

Re: Sarge on a G5?

2005-01-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Hey!! Does the ppc release of sarge work with the G5 Charles> (970) processor? Yes! If you have a recent machine (PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX) please use a recent d-i build (20050117 or later). Cheers! Shyamal -- To U

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still run in 32 bit mode AFAIK. Cheers! Shyamal

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still run in 32 bit mode AFAIK. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Building kernels (Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf)

2005-01-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> That's not quite what I meant: given that not building in Chris> initrd means that one *must* have the right filesystems Chris> [] Chris> Then again, I subscribe to the "first do no harm" Chris> philosophy of

Building kernels (Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf)

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> That's not quite what I meant: given that not building in Chris> initrd means that one *must* have the right filesystems Chris> [] Chris> Then again, I subscribe to the "first do no harm" Chris> philosophy of

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I didn't use the --initrd options (or the added-patches Chris> options, either) to make-kpkg. I made the mistake of Chris> assuming that the defaults would be sensible. I'm Well, most people I've run into think that no

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new Wolfgang> disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The Wolfgang> repair servic

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I didn't use the --initrd options (or the added-patches Chris> options, either) to make-kpkg. I made the mistake of Chris> assuming that the defaults would be sensible. I'm Well, most people I've run into think that no

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new Wolfgang> disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The Wolfgang> repair servic

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> And /boot. Notice that there's no initrd.img symlink. I Chris> thought there was earlier, but I was obviously mistaken. The inintrd.img symlink is a convenience, and it is created by the kernel install scripts when you firs

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> And /boot. Notice that there's no initrd.img symlink. I Chris> thought there was earlier, but I was obviously mistaken. The inintrd.img symlink is a convenience, and it is created by the kernel install scripts when you firs

Re: Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You really are having all the luck;-) Chris> On boot, whether I select the linux image or the old image, Chris> I get the following (I believe this is an OpenFirmware Chris> message): I suspect that this is from yaboot (see

Re: Right, so compiling my own kernel has b0rked my iMac. (was Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B)

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You really are having all the luck;-) Chris> On boot, whether I select the linux image or the old image, Chris> I get the following (I believe this is an OpenFirmware Chris> message): I suspect that this is from yaboot (see

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> It's not that they don't work, it's that they're Chris> nonexistent. Here's the relevant section from the README. Chris> "Prerequisites: Chris> [...deleted] We must be looking at different package versionsI

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> Is there a reason you need to compile a kernel (other than that >> you just want to do it)? The precompiled kernels are actually >> really good.

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> It's not that they don't work, it's that they're Chris> nonexistent. Here's the relevant section from the README. Chris> "Prerequisites: Chris> [...deleted] We must be looking at different package versionsI

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> Is there a reason you need to compile a kernel (other than that >> you just want to do it)? The precompiled kernels are actually >> really good.

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I haven't the foggiest idea *what* in the trees for Chris> kernel-patch-powerpc and kernel-patch-debianlogo (the two Chris> patches I would like to install) qualifies as Chris> "/path/to/kernel/patch". When I tried ma

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I haven't the foggiest idea *what* in the trees for Chris> kernel-patch-powerpc and kernel-patch-debianlogo (the two Chris> patches I would like to install) qualifies as Chris> "/path/to/kernel/patch". When I tried ma

Re: Very slow ftp daemon - what's wrong??

2005-01-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bjorn" == Bjorn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bjorn> I have a problem here. I'm running Sarge on two computers Bjorn> in a small local network. Both computers have a 100Mbit Bjorn> network card installed but despite this I get very poor Bjorn> performance using the pro

Re: Very slow ftp daemon - what's wrong??

2005-01-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bjorn" == Bjorn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bjorn> I have a problem here. I'm running Sarge on two computers Bjorn> in a small local network. Both computers have a 100Mbit Bjorn> network card installed but despite this I get very poor Bjorn> performance using the pro

Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3

2005-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode requires 2.6.8-power4 Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel, used mirror

Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3

2005-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode requires 2.6.8-power4 Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel, used mirror

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> >> If you have a newer machine (a PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX G5 >> processor) it should work with tomo

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Gotchya sorry. Looks like I'm 2.2. How do I tell Charles> Debian I have 2 processors though? After the install finishes (it will run on one CPU) you install the kernel-image-2.6-power4-smp package. This will give y

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz Charles> PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? If you have an older machine (a PowerMac7,2 with the 970 G5 processor) it should work with no problems o

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> >> If you have a newer machine (a PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX G5 >> processor) it should work with tomo

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Gotchya sorry. Looks like I'm 2.2. How do I tell Charles> Debian I have 2 processors though? After the install finishes (it will run on one CPU) you install the kernel-image-2.6-power4-smp package. This will give y

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz Charles> PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? If you have an older machine (a PowerMac7,2 with the 970 G5 processor) it should work with no problems o

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev Patrick> driver. Has there

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev Patrick> driver. Has there

Re: kernel packago 2.6.8-9 sources ?

2005-01-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"vinai" == vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vinai> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote: >> Have you tried the debian powerpc kernels 2.6.8-8 and -9, which >> include support for G5 thermal management ? vinai> I was wondering where one would obtain the sources for this

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test >> using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on th

Re: kernel packago 2.6.8-9 sources ?

2005-01-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"vinai" == vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vinai> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote: >> Have you tried the debian powerpc kernels 2.6.8-8 and -9, which >> include support for G5 thermal management ? vinai> I was wondering where one would obtain the sources for this

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test >> using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on th

Re: G5 thermal module... Louder under Linux than OS X?

2005-01-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Christian" == Christian Luijten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Hi, I've installed Debian on my PowerMac7,3 a few days Christian> ago (thanks again, Sven) and it seems that it is louder Christian> than it is under OS X. A quick look inside showed that Christian> the two

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