Re: Re: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Daniel Cavalli wrote: > Hi Peter, > > firstly thanks very much for providing the kernel images. > > yesterday I installed Jessie on my newly acquired G5 powerpc (GeForce FX > 5200 Ultra) and experienced problems with nouveau, which I used the >

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 01:33:36PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > And of course I made a typo while copying things into the patch. > > Doing another build test of it now. > > --- vlc-2.2.4.orig/configure.ac 2016-05-31 12:11:07.0 -0400 > +++ vlc-2.2.4/configure.ac2016-11-04

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/08/2016 10:10 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: >> The best thing that could happen right now was a company approaching >> Debian, emphasizing the importance of the powerpc architecture for >> their business, and declaring they will hire two Debian Developers who >> will contribute to

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-08 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 07:16:00PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > luigi burdo wrote... > > > Im thinking to start a petition about ... "dont kill debian penguins on > > powerpc" > > Don't. The release team folks are not politicians who get convinced by > a lot of noise. Unless I completely