Re: italian and german keyboards

On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi! I have an iBook and a PowerBook with an italian keyboard. Keys with have 3 symbols each. I need to type certain keys with the "right-something

Re: italian and german keyboards

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi! I have an iBook and a PowerBook with an italian keyboard. Keys with have 3 symbols each. I need to type certain keys with the "right-something" key combination (altgr on PC) or similar. Some of these keys are crucial: @, #,

Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks

Hi Adrian, Sorry, I'm really late with my answer: On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:54:54PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I have dug out one of my iBook G4s now so I can perform installer tests on the PowerMac target. While the machine has a built-in optical drive, I would avoid

Fwd: [Re: apt install debian-ports-archive-keyring: missing keyring]

Sorry everyone: forgot to CC my answer below to the mailing-list ... Regards, Wolfgang - Forwarded message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer - Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 01:58:55 +0100 From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Subject: Re: apt install debian-ports-archive-keyring

apt install debian-ports-archive-keyring: missing keyring

I'm using this sources list: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sources.list and I get this result, after an 'apt update': # apt install debian-ports-archive-keyring [ ... ] E: unable to locate package debian-ports-archive-keyring Anyone? Wolfgang

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 01:46:52PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi David, Try installing with the “oldstable”/“Jessie” CD. http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/8.11.0/powerpc/iso-cd/ Grub for Powerpc is still a work in progress. It may not work on your old G3 machine. Jessie

Re: rescue of install / booting from USB

On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 07:10:17PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: [ ... ] Fine, why not try just booting a debian 8 image and see? I could tryi fixing yaboot (e.g. by installing the one just booted) or by installing debian 8 and then upgrading later. I got the netinst iso on a USB stick

Re: Please update your sources.list for powerpc

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 06:55:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: We might build contrib and non-free packages for Debian Ports in the future, but I am not sure whether that's possible from the legal point of view. What is this legal point of view that makes contrib and non-free

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:51:47 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > [ ... ] > Awesome, the window manager, crashes the system at times. Such > crashes are what I'm used to with this machine even with an older > previous Debian install - Debian 8, IIRC, and a diff

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:13:58 +0100 Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Ok, thanks, I don't have the keyboard configuration file at hand, but > it was something like lv3:enter_switch

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:37:24 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > > Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote: > > [ ...

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote: > [ ... ] > > The latter one: mine is from ~2001: > "Command (Apple) key followed by KP_Enter" &g

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > > [ ... ] > >

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:50:01 +0100 > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > I have

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:11:07 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/04/2017 01:26 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ] > >>> No wayland, under no circumstances. Please! .. :) > >> > >> Why not? Wayland actual

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > [ ... ] > > Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware, not Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware should say: Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:50:01 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I have to rebuild debian-installer to match the 4.14 kernel. The > > current version of debian-installer on the installation images is >

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

Hi Adrian, hi All On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:14:50 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Wolfgang! > > On 12/03/2017 11:59 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch &

Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

Hi Adrian, hi All On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 13:14:44 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Wolfgang! > > On 12/02/2017 12:17 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > >> We are maintaining installer images for ports here: > >> > >&g

Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 09:33:39 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Laura! > > Can you please mention that both powerpc and ppc64 (and even > powerpcspe) are available through Debian Ports? Powerpc? Sure? > > We are maintaining installer images for ports

Re: Xorg fails on ATI after update (mmio aperture)

On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 08:59 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > On Mar 6, 2017, at 8:36 AM, Michel Dänzer > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 06/03/17 04:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to use atyfb you have to >

Re: make-jpkg/java-package on unstable/experimental missing?

Hi All Thanks everyone for the responses so far. On Apr 13 2010, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Anyone out there who knows what happened to the tool/package above on ppc-Debian? Not only with ppc, but removed in general (the package is arch all). Anything I missed? The announcement

make-jpkg/java-package on unstable/experimental missing?

Hi All Anyone out there who knows what happened to the tool/package above on ppc-Debian? It looks like they have been removed from powerpc on unstable/experimental without creating a replacement. And yes, I know there are packages on Ubuntu I maybe could try. Anything I missed? Thanks in

Re: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6-1 + libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6-1 working on PowerBook5.8?

Hi All On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: But because I have slight usability problems with that mixed versions scenario on the PB5,8 - e.g. criticalmass, a game that uses OpenGL, is very slow, and basically unusable here over the last times I used it - I

Re: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6-1 + libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6-1 working on PowerBook5.8?

Stephane, Michel, and All On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:22:38AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 20:49 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I cannot risk to break the usability of a PowerBook5,8 - so before upgrading both packages to 7.6-1: Did someone out there get both

libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6-1 + libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6-1 working on PowerBook5.8?

Hi All I cannot risk to break the usability of a PowerBook5,8 - so before upgrading both packages to 7.6-1: Did someone out there get both mentioned packages, version 7.6-1, to work without problems on a Powerbook5.8? See bugs #549588 #550691 for more ... Problem is I don't find my currently

Re: Hard Crash Xserver on Powerbook (Pismo) Sid

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:27:38PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: Hi, Brian Morris wrote: Hey I just did an update today at the console, and starting up the window system after, the Xserver hangs. There is a cursor but no menu action and no out via function keys, plus the cursor doesn't

Re: mplayer/xine: Green areas at the edges of wmv videos

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:54:14AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 14:11 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Since a few weeks some .wmv files cannot be played properly by both mplayer and xine, movies that could be played fine without these green colors some time ago

[Solved] Re: mplayer/xine: Green areas at the edges of wmv videos

Hi Michel, Hi All I'll try to make it as short as possible:: *** 1: mplayer-g4 is replaced by mplayer. Please remember I got the errors with an mplayer-g4 on the TitaniumIV *** 2: config flags to compile a working mplayer have changed, too. build-deps probably too. This is relevant for the

Re: [Solved: Addendum] Re: mplayer/xine: Green areas at the edges of wmv videos

xine still has the green edges, as described earlier. No changes. But at least mplayer now seems to work. Wolfgang -- http://heelsbroke.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

mplayer/xine: Green areas at the edges of wmv videos

Hi All Since a few weeks some .wmv files cannot be played properly by both mplayer and xine, movies that could be played fine without these green colors some time ago, at least as far as I can recall it. When played back now, these movies look like shown on the pictures on this page:

Re: Name of kernel driver that manages fan (PowerBook5,8)

Hi Michel, Hi All On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:35:18PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:12 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Sometimes my fan seems to hang, at a very high speed, IINM, that is, /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor1_fan_speed in these cases gives me

Re: keyboard problems in Squeeze

for next stable release. The potential of spoiling a perfectly sane system is apparently immense in our community. I'll try to give your solutions a try tomorrow morning. Anyway,  GREAT thanks! Piotr 2009/11/6 Wolfgang Pfeiffer r...@gmx.net: Hi All On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:05

Re: Proper partitioning

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:10:12PM +0800, Jason Hsu wrote: What are the appropriate partitions for using Debian on a PowerPC? So far, my partitioning experience has been limited to Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux on a PC. Does a PowerPC require certain things that a PC does not? Don't know

Re: Proper partitioning

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:40:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: What partitions are you using on your PowerPC? --- # /sbin/mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda #type name length base ( size

[Solved] Re: Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

Hi Benjamin, hi All Thanks, Benjamin, for your response .. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:26:58AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Hi, Just guessing : for mplayer, I know there is the -srate parameter that can set a forced sampling rate for your sound card. You're right, but I get this switch -

Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

Hi All PowerBook5,8 here. I want to play a sound file that is coded to 24 bits/96000 Hz at exactly these sample rates. $ file 24-96-sound.wav 24-96-sound.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 24 bit, stereo 96000 Hz Apple says the soundcard I have is able to do 16 or 24

Re: Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:53:20PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi All PowerBook5,8 here. I want to play a sound file that is coded to 24 bits/96000 Hz at exactly these sample rates. $ file 24-96-sound.wav 24-96-sound.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 24

Name of kernel driver that manages fan (PowerBook5,8)

Hi All What driver do i need to switch off my fan? Sometimes my fan seems to hang, at a very high speed, IINM, that is, /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor1_fan_speed in these cases gives me a value of something like 0 (3859 rpm) I'd (wild .. :) guess the second value simply means the number

Re: Name of kernel driver that manages fan (PowerBook5,8)

Thanks a lot, Michel, for your fast response .. :) On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:35:18PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:12 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Sometimes my fan seems to hang, at a very high speed, IINM, that is, /sys/devices/temperatures

Re: VLC Illegal Instruction

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:35:15PM -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote: domingo, 26 de abril de 2009, Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br escreveu: Hi, Gunter. On Apr 05 2009, Gunther Furtado wrote: I am getting a lot of Illegal Instruction complains from VLC (whenever I ask it to show me video).

mplayer as a stream server [was: Re: VLC Illegal Instruction]

Hi all I start a new thread as the topic on the original one is becoming off-topic: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:27:05AM +0100, Rafal Czlonka wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: AFAIK, mplayer cannot stream audio and video like vlc does. That is why I use it. Not quite sure, Gunter, what

apt-get build-dep mplayer, without removing DRI

Hi Christian, hi All On a Powerbook5,8: Please note that with the official Debian repositories in the sources.list a build-dep for mplayer does not work at all: -- # apt-get build-dep mplayer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Re: 2.6.28 and appletouch

Hi Elimar On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Elimar Riesebieter [081027 21:20 +0100] Hi, does one know why appletouch on vt's doesn't work with 2.6.28-rc(1|2)? gpm runs and I can use my mighty mouse but no trackpad cursor. = 2.6.27.4 works well.

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

Hi Benjamin, Hermann Kaiser. Hi All On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:16:17AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 20:17 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer a écrit : Could this also be a simple file system damage? Errors like that (i.e. in the middle of a DMA interrupt) are not simple FS

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

Wow, Benjamin, your effort to help is definitely more than I could expect from a mailing list .. :) Thanks for lot: I think I learned a few things with your explanations ... On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:16:17AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 20:17 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

mercredi 01 octobre 2008 à 22:29 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer a écrit : Excerpt from the Debian install syslog, cut: kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=76724680, high=4, low=9615816, sector=76724680

Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

Hi All I can't e2fsck my root partition any more - looks seriously like that partition went belly up on me. e2fsck tells me something like the superblock could not be read ... The Debian install CD (Etch) does not have dumpe2fs - which normally should yield information of the partition backup

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

:35:45PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:46:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi All I can't e2fsck my root partition any more - looks seriously like that partition went belly up on me. [ ... ] Affected machine is a Powerbook5,8a Typo. Should say

Re: xrandr and dvi output

On Mon, Aug 25 2008, at 18:44 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Hi! I recently got an external monitor that has DVI input. Was quite nice, before I only had an VGA screen. Though, the VGA screen worked perfectly: I was able to enable the external monitor at any time with xrandr, enabling

Re: keyboard in Etch on powerbook

Hi Piotr On Thu, Sep 04 2008, at 10:17 +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: Is this option in xorg.conf doing the same thing? Option XkbOptionslv3:lwin_switch I was shitting you, and me. Sorry about that, Piotr. And thanks for asking: Because it helped me realize that this line

Re: keyboard in Etch on powerbook

On Tue, Sep 02 2008, at 23:29 +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: Dear list, I have just installed Etch on Powerbook5,6 1.67 but cannot get Polish input in spite of choosing Polish locales as default, There are no problems with Polish fonts. I would be very grateful if you could help me enable

Re: No audio on PowerBook G4 for kernels 2.6.22

Elimar Thanks for responding, and Sorry for my real late answer. On Mon, Aug 25 2008, at 09:47 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 the mental interface of Wolfgang Pfeiffer told: [...] be warned tho': just realized that something went wrong with /dev/rtc

Re: No audio on PowerBook G4 for kernels 2.6.22

Hi All Sorry for being a bit late On Wed, Jul 30 2008, at 19:33 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, I own a PowerBook G4. For previous kernels (2.6.19 self compiled, Debian 2.6.22) playing audio files was no problem. When using the Debian 2.6.25 or a self compiled 2.6.24 I no longer have

Re: No audio on PowerBook G4 for kernels 2.6.22

On Sun, Aug 24 2008, at 14:26 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I don't have any problems with sound, just tested it again. With this kernel, self-rolled, the sources gotten via git: Kernel: 2.6.26-rc5-53c8ba9 Just in case: here's the config for the kernel above: http://www.geocities.com

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

On Sun, Jun 15 2008, at 01:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My two cents to the discution : what gives you the following command : nvsetenv boot-device mine returns : boot-device=hd:2,yaboot # nvsetenv boot-device boot-device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

On Sat, Jun 14 2008, at 15:38 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote: my yaboot.conf looks like this boot=/dev/sdb2 device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: partition=4 root=/dev/sdb4 timeout=100 magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot install=/usr/lib/yaboot enablecdboot macosx=/dev/sdb3 image=/boot/vmlinux

Re: Good luck.

Hi Thomas On Thu, Jun 12 2008, at 01:05 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Jun 11 2008, at 23:20 +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:24:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: This will be my last email to a Debian list. Reason is my last 2

Good luck.

happenend with 2 emails I sent to debian-powerpc, that never showed up here. One of their answers is attached. Good luck Wolfgang - Forwarded message from Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: Good luck.

Hi Hans, Hi Powerpc listers On Wed, Jun 11 2008, at 21:55 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:24:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi All - on the Powerpc list. This will be my last email to a Debian list. Reason is my last 2 mails were considered as being

Re: Good luck.

On Wed, Jun 11 2008, at 23:20 +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:24:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: This will be my last email to a Debian list. Reason is my last 2 mails were considered as being SPAM at least from one of Debian list admins

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

757021 @ 14447331 (369.6M) Linux swap /dev/sdb6Apple_Free Extra 16 @ 320173040 ( 8.0k) Free space So i chanaged yaboot.conf to say device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 and i tried :4, but neither worke On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:29:38AM +0200, Wolfgang

Re: 12 G4 Powerbook with heat issues

On Sat, Jun 07 2008, at 15:02 -0500, Matthew Ray wrote: Greetings, I've been running vanilla PPC Etch install on my 12 600mhz G3 iBook as a server for some time, with months of uptime and no performance issues. I run it with the lid closed and pbbuttonsd configured to turn off the screen and

Re: Debian Sarge y Debian Multimedia

Hi On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 00:12 -0600, Esteban Monge wrote: Hello. I have a PowerMac G3 450Mhz, have installed Debian Sarge, i need one repository with the Debian Multimedia packages, i try with various but in the moment to use debmirror dont download any package, i dont use bad debmirror

Re: Debian Sarge y Debian Multimedia

On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 23:25 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 00:12 -0600, Esteban Monge wrote: Hello. I have a PowerMac G3 450Mhz, have installed Debian Sarge, i need one repository with the Debian Multimedia packages, i try with various but in the moment

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 17:17 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote: I did try ybin -v and it ran fine. Should i try to change the device to what you have? I have a Dual 1.8Ghz Power Mac G5. There's a tool on Debian called ofpath. It finds you the correct Openfirmware path to your bootstrap partition.

Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 22:44 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 08 2008, Gunther Furtado wrote: Alternatively, you could try booting into openfirmware (Opt+Command+O+F just after the shime) and issuing dev / ls and devalias to determine the correct path to your disk. Yes, that is

git Linux 2.6.26-rc5 - 53c8ba9: seems OK after short use

Hi All With these rather fresh sources, obtained via git: 53c8ba9 Linux 2.6.26-rc5 and after just about an hour of mild tests on 2 powerpc laptops: an older TiBookIV, a newer Powerbook5,8. CD-Burning seems to work again: at least on the Powerbook5,8 - with a real image burn. A simulated CD

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

On Sat, May 10 2008, at 10:26 +0200, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: Hello all, and sorry for reviving this old thread. As you address more than just me, I'll try to CC the Debian powerpc list ... I hope this is OK ... :) - for this to work I changed the In-Reply-To header in this email ... let's

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

On Mon, May 12 2008, at 19:13 +0200, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: Hello again, 2008/5/12 Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, May 10 2008, at 10:26 +0200, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: Hello all, and sorry for reviving this old thread. As you address more than just me

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

On Wed, Apr 23 2008, at 21:25 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:22:18 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever having considered to install sid/unstable? Most of the time it works like a charm on ab old titanium here: ** processor : 0

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

On Tue, Apr 22 2008, at 10:23 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I switched back to etch on this laptop and everything worked like magic. So right now I am back to running etch on this machine, which is great. I just had to recompile a lot of the software that I needed (claws mail 3.4.0,

Re: Not building for powerpc any more

On Tue, Apr 15 2008, at 10:23 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 16:46 -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: -Are we talking about the death of the ppc mailing-list, or the death of Debian PPC branch ? Neither - as should have been clear from my previous post (?) [ ... ] No

Re: mplayer build failure on powerpc

Hi All Sorry for answering so late: my Internet line was down. On Sun, Apr 06 2008, at 21:40 +0200, A Mennucc wrote: hi according to http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/package.php?suite=unstablep=mplayera=powerpc mplayer has failed building in powerpc due to 'internal compiler error';

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

Hi Being curious: Those having reported about the kernel problems: Did someone try to compile the git version of the kernel I wrote would work rather fine here? Or install the one I uploaded? Best Regards Wolfgang -- http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

OK: At last I saw this bug, too ...:) ..: On the tibook (PowerBook3,5) I saw the trackpad mouse disappearing on X a few minutes ago - for the first time, IIRC. Just putting the machine to sleep, and resuming it again. fixed it ... The Tibook has the same kernel installed as the one installed to

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 10:45 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: Hello, I dist-upgraded, last weekend, to the lastest version of Sid on the repositories for my iBook G4 (summer 2005). Generally, it works very well (it did fix

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 13:50 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I've uploaded this kernel quite some time ago to rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/96992135/linux-image-2.6.25-rc3-g7704a8b-with-ben.s-pmu-patch_2008.02.29_powerpc.deb.html md5sum: 7a7613e0c52e179acf7caacaa3890901 Please

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 13:50 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 10:45 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: Hello, I dist-upgraded, last weekend, to the lastest version of Sid on the repositories for my

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 14:15 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:50:01PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 10:45 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: Hello, I dist-upgraded, last

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 15:11 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Oh, just in case it's important: I'm using one of these modern 32 RGB (? is it a 32 RGB mouse ?) mouses, to fix that should say: (? is it a 32 RGB theme ?) cursor themes, to fix

Re: Long boot delay with agpgart

On Wed, Mar 05 2008, at 17:33 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: The boot process began being stuck the moment some agpgart init routine started: Excerpt from kern.log that moment: [6.882357] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 36.732011] uninorth_agp: gave up waiting for init

Re: 2.6.25-rc3 (g7704a8b) - freezer for suspend broken?

On Sun, Mar 02 2008, at 16:27 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: With the old kernel I had to press fn-F(x) to change sound, brightness etc. - now the same can be done by pressing F(x) without the fn key. Vice-versa on mc previously I only had to press the F(x) keys to access its menu - now I

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] (testers ?) Fix sleep on some powerbooks

Hi Ben, Gaudenz - Hi All On Mon, Mar 03 2008, at 17:27 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The PMU backlight code would kick in during sleep/resume even on machines that use a different backlight method. This appears to break sleep on my PowerBook, though I can't test that patch at the

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] (testers ?) Fix sleep on some powerbooks

On Tue, Mar 04 2008, at 17:15 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] I uploaded this fresh kernel .deb, patched with your code, up to rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/96992135/linux-image-2.6.25-rc3-g7704a8b-with-ben.s-pmu-patch_2008.02.29_powerpc.deb.html md5sum for the file

2.6.25-rc3 (g7704a8b) - freezer for suspend broken?

Hi All Unstable Debian here, most packages last upgraded about 2 months ago. On a Powerbook5,8 With git sources pulled last Friday: The kernel compiled nicely - it even booted (I don't take that for granted, with fresh sources and my - at best - incomplete knowledge, especially when it comes

Re: USB speaker on iBook running Debian/Lenny

this works)? *** 4: Perhaps this: your hardware (cat /proc/cpuinfo)? *** 5: ... What ever you think might be helpful to let us know ... HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ Key: 0xE3037113 http

Re: USB speaker on iBook running Debian/Lenny

luck! Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ Key: 0xE3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113fingerprint=on ctl { alsactl1 { name hw:0 comment 'Physical

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

these messages (about eth1) keep appearing without giving you the chance to type uninterrupted. man ifdown as root: ifdown eth1 Good luck Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ Key: 0xE3037113 http

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

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Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

you might want having a look to the scripts in /etc/init.b/ or in /etc/rcX.d if the 'sysv-rc-conf' incantation does not help ... HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ Key: 0xE3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu

Re: make-kpkg utsrelease.h ... does not match current version

On Thu, Jan 10 2008, at 08:47 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:45:41AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Jan 09 2008, at 23:43 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 the mental interface of Wolfgang Pfeiffer told: Since hours I'm trying

[Workarounded!] Re: make-kpkg utsrelease.h ... does not match current version

Hi All Thanks to Bin I found a workaround: He asked a good question, that left me without an answer ... :) On Wed, Jan 09 2008, at 20:27 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Since hours I'm trying to compile one of the latest git kernel sources: all builds break like this: Most important first

ccache compile speed gain [was: Re: make-kpkg utsrelease.h [ ... ]

, on a Powerbook5,8. With ccache enabled, on the same machine, about 14 minutes :) Invaluably useful hint: Lots of thanks, Gaudenz. Speeding up recompilation with ccache: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/129 Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM

Bug#423721: kernel-package: [Powerpc] Not just bogus version-# annoyance: deb build fails with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y

Package: kernel-package Version: 11.001 Followup-For: Bug #423721 Hi All Similar to #390924 the compile completely fails with git kernels as long as LOCALVERSION_AUTO is turned on. But other than on #390924 the fail does no seem to have anything to do with GREP_OPTIONS in the user's environment

Re: kernel-package: [Powerpc] Not just bogus version-# annoyance: deb build fails with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y

On Thu, Jan 10 2008, at 22:35 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Output head -6 Makefile in the tree where the compile worked: --- $ head -6 Makefile VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 24 EXTRAVERSION = -rc7 NAME = Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat! Wrong: Output

Re: Bug#423721: kernel-package: [Powerpc] Not just bogus version-# annoyance: deb build fails with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y

On Thu, Jan 10 2008, at 22:35 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Package: kernel-package Version: 11.001 Followup-For: Bug #423721 Hi All Similar to #390924 the compile completely fails with git kernels as long as LOCALVERSION_AUTO is turned on. completely fails might be exaggerated

make-kpkg utsrelease.h ... does not match current version

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[Addendum] Re: make-kpkg utsrelease.h ... does not match current version

On Wed, Jan 09 2008, at 20:27 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Since hours I'm trying to compile one of the latest git kernel sources: all builds break like this: .. the last line should say: sources: all builds break with something similar

Re: make-kpkg utsrelease.h ... does not match current version

On Wed, Jan 09 2008, at 23:43 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 the mental interface of Wolfgang Pfeiffer told: Since hours I'm trying to compile one of the latest git kernel sources: all builds break like

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