Squeeze for ppc on mac-mini G4 and bluetooth keyboard A1016

2013-10-14 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi all, I'm trying to get an Apple wireless keyboard (mod. A1016) to work under Debian-Squeeze for powerpc installed on a Mac-mini PowerPc G4, mid 2005. Bluetooth from Gnome-control-centre says keyboard and mouse have been paired, but AAMOF I can use the mouse only: the keyboard

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-09-16 Thread frank
/sources.list: deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main Then do: apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-whatever-makes-sense Options are: llinux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc - Linux 3.2 for uniprocessor 32-bit PowerPC linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc-smp - Linux 3.2

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-09-16 Thread http
or directory root@dsl:/home/frank# Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main Then do: apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-whatever-makes-sense Options are: llinux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-powerpc - Linux 3.2 for uniprocessor 32-bit

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-09-16 Thread GW (is a) superstar
/apt/sources.list: bash: /etc/apt/sources.list:: No such file or directory root@dsl:/home/frank# Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main Then do: apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-whatever-makes-sense Options are: llinux

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-09-16 Thread GW (is a) superstar
/sources.list: bash: /etc/apt/sources.list:: No such file or directory root@dsl:/home/frank# Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main Then do: apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-whatever-makes-sense Options are: llinux-image

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-25 Thread Csanyi Pal
Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca writes: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:56:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I get an answer for my questions on the debian users list: quote Yes, udev in Wheezy requires a kernel = 2.6.32 with the accept4(2) syscall. At least one year ago, the Squeeze

Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian Squeeze operating system so far. I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here: http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11t=2518 Now since Wheezy is out as stable release, I want to upgrade my Squeeze

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian Squeeze operating system so far. I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here: http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11t=2518 Now since Wheezy is out

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:56:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I get an answer for my questions on the debian users list: quote Yes, udev in Wheezy requires a kernel = 2.6.32 with the accept4(2) syscall. At least one year ago, the Squeeze kernel did not provide this particular syscall

Re: Viewing Flash content in Squeeze on PowerPC, and G+

2012-12-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:57:23PM -0900, Terrence van Ettinger wrote: I have an old iMac G4 running Squeeze that I'd like to be able to view web pages on that use flash content. Can this be done at all reliably? You can try gnash and lightspark. If it's just about viewing YouTube videos

Viewing Flash content in Squeeze on PowerPC, and G+

2012-12-12 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello all, I have an old iMac G4 running Squeeze that I'd like to be able to view web pages on that use flash content. Can this be done at all reliably? Also, is there any way to use G+ Hangouts with the same computer? Thanks, Terrence Facebook: www.facebook.com/anguslaren Twitter

Re: Viewing Flash content in Squeeze on PowerPC, and G+

2012-12-12 Thread Robert Chamberlain
, but I've learnt to live without it. At least I now have a relatively modern browser, compared to all the old and unsupported browsers for Mac Tiger. Best regards, Robert. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 22:57, Terrence van Ettinger wrote: Hello all, I have an old iMac G4 running Squeeze that I'd

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
I really need access to Skype on it. SIP applications like Ekiga, Linphone, and friends should work just fine on it. And SIP being open, you get a lot more competition and hence lower rates if you want to call land-lines. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello, Is there any way to get some form of Skype to run on Debian Squeeze? I have an iMac G4 from about 66 years ago that's a hand-me-down, and I really need access to Skype on it. Thanks, Terrence Facebook: www.facebook.com/anguslaren Twitter: @LandrasGembar Words/Hanging with Friends ID

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 12:45:15PM -0800, Terrence van Ettinger wrote: Hello, Is there any way to get some form of Skype to run on Debian Squeeze? I have an iMac G4 from about 66 years ago that's a hand-me-down, and I really need access to Skype on it. No hope. Skype doesn't do powerpc

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Terrence van Ettinger wrote: Hello, Is there any way to get some form of Skype to run on Debian Squeeze? I have an iMac G4 from about 66 years ago that's a hand-me-down, and I really need access to Skype on it. Highly unlikely. Skype is a binary only download and I don't believe

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Logan Brown
some form of Skype to run on Debian Squeeze? I have an iMac G4 from about 66 years ago that's a hand-me-down, and I really need access to Skype on it. Highly unlikely. Skype is a binary only download and I don't believe that one exists for powerpc-linux. Erik

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Driggs
There's a Skype plugin for Pidgin but I doubt it's handles more than text IM services. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

2012-10-09 Thread Harold Fry
It doesn't do anything more than interface with the running Skype application, sadly. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com wrote: There's a Skype plugin for Pidgin but I doubt it's handles more than text IM services. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Install problems: squeeze and G5: Solved

2012-09-28 Thread Richard Crane
On Sep 25, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Richard Crane wrote: I have a G5 with a bad internal DVD drive. I've attached an external drive, and used it to create a 50GB free space partition, a 50GB Mac partition, and install OS X. - with OS X running, I can mount a Debian squeeze CD debian-6.0.5

Install problems: squeeze and G5

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Crane
I have a G5 with a bad internal DVD drive. I've attached an external drive, and used it to create a 50GB free space partition, a 50GB Mac partition, and install OS X. - with OS X running, I can mount a Debian squeeze CD debian-6.0.5-powerpc-netinst, look at files, etc. I can't boot from the CD

Re: Install problems: squeeze and G5

2012-09-25 Thread MiB
25 sep 2012 kl. 23:15 skrev Richard Crane: On a G4, the same Debian CD boots from its internal DVD drive and I can go right into the installer. Disk image from dvd to USB stick. Or get a readymade USB image. Make sure you format the USB stick so it's bootable (Google for this). -- To

Re: Install problems: squeeze and G5

2012-09-25 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 09/25/2012 05:15 PM, Richard Crane wrote: I have a G5 with a bad internal DVD drive. I've attached an external drive, and used it to create a 50GB free space partition, a 50GB Mac partition, and install OS X. - with OS X running, I can mount a Debian squeeze CD debian-6.0.5-powerpc-netinst

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

2012-05-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:33:43AM +0200, e20100633 wrote: Hm. Actually, the packages seems to be generated quite well under i386/amd64 as we can see on http://emacs.naquadah.org/, so I was thinking that was because I'm trying under powerpc. Is not that weird that everything goes well when I

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

2012-05-17 Thread e20100633
Dear Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo and Philipp Kern, On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 10:46 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Sadly pbuilder doesn't print its version. It obviously doesn't do the right thing when creating its dummy package. Yes, that's what I understood from the logs. The three packages were

Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

2012-05-16 Thread e20100633
Hello, I would like to submit to the list a problem I encounter when I create packages of emacs-snapshot (from http://emacs.naquadash.org by Julien Danjou) on Debian squeeze (powerpc) with pbuilder. After editing /etc/apt/sources.list with the right deb-src (stable), I used apt-get source emacs

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

2012-05-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:51:18PM +0200, e20100633 wrote: --8---cut here---start-8--- $ AUTO_DEBSIGN=no sudo pdebuild dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libncurses5-dev liblockfile-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev |

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

2012-05-16 Thread e20100633
Hello, On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 23:37 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: I very much doubt that this is a powerpc-specific issue. Hm. Actually, the packages seems to be generated quite well under i386/amd64 as we can see on http://emacs.naquadah.org/, so I was thinking that was because I'm trying under

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

2012-05-16 Thread e20100633
Hello again, just for being sure that I'm ok with the process, I just tested it on my other box, which is an i386 under wheezy. I grabbed emacs-snapshot-20120502 Debian stable sources (the same I used on powerpc) and configured pbuilder with DISTRIBUTION=squeeze; so my chroot based on base.tgz

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

2012-05-16 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Hi, e20100633. The problem is really pbuilder's version. If you checked the changelog, you would notice that version 0.199+nmu2 fixed bug #363193, which shows the linux-any issue as one of its first messages. This is not a powerpc issue. You should use a newer version of pbuilder on your powerpc

Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread e20100633
Hello, First, I apologize for my english but it is not my native language. I successfully installed Debian Squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-powerpc) on a iMac G4. This is my first installation of Debian on a Apple desktop computer. I have few question about it. The first one is about hibernation

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2012-05-11 at 16:31 +0200, e20100633 wrote: I successfully installed Debian Squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-powerpc) on a iMac G4. This is my first installation of Debian on a Apple desktop computer. I have few question about it. The first one is about hibernation (suspend-to-ram). I am

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread e20100633
On 05/11/2012 05:15 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: This means sleep (aka suspend to RAM) is not supported on your machine. Support for it has never been implemented for any non-laptop Apple PowerPC machines. Oh? What a shame. Thank you for your answer, not finding anything was driving me nuts.

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM, e20100633 e20100...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/11/2012 05:15 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: This means sleep (aka suspend to RAM) is not supported on your machine. Support for it has never been implemented for any non-laptop Apple PowerPC machines. Oh? What a shame.

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread e20100633
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Just for reference since this question arise quite often on this mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/09/msg00109.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/02/msg5.html Thank you for those links.

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-04-02 Thread Gunther Furtado
...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 09:53 To: jwesleycoo...@cox.net Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac 2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Hey all, I'm having some trouble getting Debian

Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Yoel Jacobsen
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Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Risto Suominen
2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Hey all, I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original iMac, which is one of the first Bondi blue ones ... from what your install guide says, it should be supported; plus I know it's not the disks though

Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac 2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Hey all, I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original iMac, which is one of the first Bondi blue ones

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:12:18AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: One of the first things I tried was the little Press C at the chime trick … at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output. I

RE: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:12:18AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: One of the first things I tried was the little Press C at the chime trick … at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:52:34AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: I do believe I specified in my initial message that I burnt it to a CD-R … so that can't be the issue. I forgot what the initial message had said. I would be surprised if it wasn't able to read CD-Rs in general (although my

RE: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:52:34AM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: I do believe I specified in my initial message that I burnt it to a CD-R … so that can't be the issue. I forgot what the initial message had said. I would

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Risto Suominen
2012/3/28, John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Yes, it works on other machines, and I've read/burnt cd-r's using this iMac before. That's interesting. So you have a CD writer on tray loading iMac. I didn't know they existed. That makes the problem even harder to understand: CD writers

RE: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread John Wesley Cooper
Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac 2012/3/28, John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Yes, it works on other machines, and I've read/burnt cd-r's using this iMac before. That's

Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac

2012-03-28 Thread Risto Suominen
2012/3/28, John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net: Actually, the cd writer is a usb peripheral, but the cd tray drive has always been able to read disks I've burnt using that. I'm not even sure if it can read dvds. I'm sure it can't. Only CD's. Maybe the drive is just getting old, as we

Strange bind crash on PPC G5 PowerMac running Squeeze plus 2.6.39 backports kernel

2011-12-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
a wireless access point for our office. It's currently running Debian Squeeze with a 2.6.39 backports kernel. The problem is that every so often (perhaps once every 1-2 weeks) the bind daemon, which is configured to forward requests to another nameserver, locks hard and can only be removed by kill

Re: Strange bind crash on PPC G5 PowerMac running Squeeze plus 2.6.39 backports kernel

2011-12-12 Thread Frédéric Massot
Mac which we have re-purposed to become a wireless access point for our office. It's currently running Debian Squeeze with a 2.6.39 backports kernel. The problem is that every so often (perhaps once every 1-2 weeks) the bind daemon, which is configured to forward requests to another nameserver

Re: Strange bind crash on PPC G5 PowerMac running Squeeze plus 2.6.39 backports kernel

2011-12-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 12/12/11 15:15, Frédéric Massot wrote: Hi, There is currently a vulnerability in Bind9, which makes it crash. You may be in this case. https://lwn.net/Articles/467779 Hi Frédéric, That was one of my thoughts, but with an unstripped executable it should be possible to determine a

booting squeeze from an external firewire drive

2011-10-16 Thread Gilles Risch
Hi, this is the first time that I try to install debian/linux onto a PowerBook G4 (PowerBook5,6). I installed squeeze from the latest installation iso (6.0.3) onto an external firewire drive without any problem. After the installation the system reboots, prints some boot messages and waits

booting squeeze from an external firewire drive

2011-10-16 Thread Gilles Risch
Hi, this is the first time that I try to install debian/linux onto a PowerBook G4 (PowerBook5,6). I installed squeeze from the latest installation iso (6.0.3) onto an external firewire drive without any problem. After the installation the system reboots, prints some boot messages and waits

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success

2011-07-29 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, On 07/28/2011 01:08 AM, Gasha wrote: Finally i get system booted. You should file an installation report. That is one way the installer devs know what to work on. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html#submit-bug -Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success

2011-07-28 Thread Gasha
Finally i get system booted. I already downloaded Fedora 12 DVD latest build, but decided to try harder with Debian. Things i learned: 1) for some reason passing video=ofonly works never for first time, but mostly for second boot try. 2) here you can download daily builds:

introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Gasha
Hi list, just a short introduction... i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some linux development mailing lists. recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday. LPAR install. no luck, cannot boot fresh install. after 2-3 hours

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:24:44AM +0300, Gasha wrote: Hi list, just a short introduction... i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some linux development mailing lists. recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday. LPAR

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Gasha
, 2011 at 10:24:44AM +0300, Gasha wrote: Hi list, just a short introduction... i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some linux development mailing lists. recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday. LPAR install. no luck, cannot

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread David Ricar
On 07/27/2011 02:11 PM, Gasha wrote: Well, it is not so easy... 64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts. For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if there is no video=ofonly parameter specified. Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... Plan B was to try latest

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-06-04 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 20/05/2011 17:57, Justin B Rye a écrit : […] I'd prefer to just say something like: It first became an official release architecture with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (`potato') and has retained that status ever since. See the

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-06-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On May 31 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: The Linux HFS+ driver is pretty brain-dead. I should know, since I wrote it originally. In recent versions, Christoph Hellwig has been giving it a facelift (and, IIRC, Al Viro has also updated it). Have you tried booting from an OSX disc and

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-31 Thread Piotr Kopszak
: Dear list, I guess I must have done something utterly stupid, although it escapes me when. I can no longer boot OS X. When I press x I see gray apple for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-31 Thread Thomas Carlson
for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. During installation I did not format the Mac partition and I can still mount it fine

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-31 Thread Piotr Kopszak
: Dear list, I guess I must have done something utterly stupid, although it escapes me when. I can no longer boot OS X. When I press x I see gray apple for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeroen Diederen
, although it escapes me when. I can no longer boot OS X. When I press x I see gray apple for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-31 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:20:48PM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: But I still can mount Mac OS partition in linux and all seems fine. Isn't it rather a problem of Open Firmware? The Linux HFS+ driver is pretty brain-dead. I should know, since I wrote it originally. It's no indication that the

OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-29 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Dear list, I guess I must have done something utterly stupid, although it escapes me when. I can no longer boot OS X. When I press x I see gray apple for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-29 Thread Jeroen Diederen
gray apple for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. During installation I did not format the Mac partition and I can still

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-29 Thread Piotr Kopszak
boot OS X. When I press x I see gray apple for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. During installation I did not format the Mac

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-29 Thread Thomas Carlson
replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. During installation I did not format the Mac partition and I can still mount it fine. Also I did not touch Apple Partition Map

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-29 Thread Piotr Kopszak
. Before installing Squeeze and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. During installation I did not format the Mac partition and I can still mount it fine. Also I did not touch Apple Partition Map and Apple Bootstrap partitions and I can see they are where they used

Re: OS X unbootable after Squeeze/Sid installation on Powerbook5,6

2011-05-29 Thread Thomas Carlson
press x I see gray apple for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. During installation I did not format the Mac partition and I can

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* br...@quantifier.org [110524 15:37 -0400]: Do you know what alsaconf does? All I know is that it works. What tells: $ cat /proc/asound/cards $ lsmod | grep snd $ ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/ ? Which version of mpg321? brock@hops:~$ mpg321 -V mpg321 version 0.2.11. Copyright (C) 2001,

Re: MVME5500 board with Squeeze

2011-05-24 Thread David Fernandes
There is a mistake in website address, sorry for inconvenient. The correct address is : https://ipnwiki.in2p3.fr/ipnsii/index.php/MVME_5500 Cordially, David

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* br...@quantifier.org [110523 16:57 -0400]: Hmm. I guess, according to that document, they dropped alsaconf because it rarely helped, and often made things worse. That seems to call for a disclaimer, rather than dropping the package, particularly since it has always worked for me, and

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-24 Thread br...@quantifier.org
Do you know what alsaconf does? All I know is that it works. Which version of mpg321? brock@hops:~$ mpg321 -V mpg321 version 0.2.11. Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Joe Drew, Elimar -- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

MVME5500 board with Squeeze

2011-05-23 Thread David Fernandes
Hi everybody, I'm in a company internship (with Xavier Grave as tutor) at the Nuclear Physic Institute in Orsay (France). I'm working on the port for board MVME5500 (kernel and VME driver) from 2.6.14 version up to 2.6.26. The MVME5500 works now with Linux kernel 2.6.26 and Debian Squeeze

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-23 Thread br...@quantifier.org
to make a copy of lenny's alsa-utils.deb before it disappears. N.B. mpg321 works fine on my g3 ibook, after running alsaconf just magically worked. However, with the release of squeeze, alsaconf is missing. I don't know why: Read /usr/hare/doc/alsa-utils/changelog.Debian.gz Elimar

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-05-21 Thread Holger Wansing
available with Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (`squeeze'). where 6.0 (`squeeze') would be automatically updated? That's what I wrote in my initial mail, too, Indeed, so we already agree on this point ;-). but the proposal above does not include the same information as the old text

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-05-21 Thread Justin B Rye
and is currently available with Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (`squeeze'). where 6.0 (`squeeze') would be automatically updated? You need something more like has been continued, so it would be just about workable to say: The Debian PowerPC port was first officially released

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2011-05-19 at 22:00 -0700, m laks wrote: i do have good sound now. however i am not really sure what is going on. because now i have noticed that the problem was probably mpg321 which plays gibberish still. Indeed, mpg321 doesn't work anymore here either. Are you going to report

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-20 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:32:29AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2011-05-19 at 22:00 -0700, m laks wrote: i do have good sound now. however i am not really sure what is going on. because now i have noticed that the problem was probably mpg321 which plays gibberish still.

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2011-05-20 at 14:55 +, brian m. carlson wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:32:29AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2011-05-19 at 22:00 -0700, m laks wrote: i do have good sound now. however i am not really sure what is going on. because now i have noticed that

Nouveau driver issue in squeeze

2011-05-20 Thread Matty Sarro
Hey everyone, I have recently installed debian squeeze on an older Powerbook G4 1ghz, and have been having a number of issues, relating to both video and the fan. The fan issue hasn't really gone anywhere. The video issue, well... I tried using the following known working config for my laptop

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-20 Thread m laks
: Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org Subject: Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa To: brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 11:23 AM On Fre, 2011-05-20 at 14:55 +, brian m. carlson wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-05-20 Thread Holger Wansing
officially released with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (`potato'). Support for PowerPC is continued in the releases 3.1 (`sarge'), 4.0 (`etch') and 5.0 (`lenny'). « In this list the squeeze release is not listed. Do you want me to commit such patch? --- ports_powerpc_index-orig.wml2011-05-20 22:25

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-05-20 Thread David Prévot
/ports/powerpc/ In this list the squeeze release is not listed. Do you want me to commit such patch? --- ports_powerpc_index-orig.wml 2011-05-20 22:25:28.0 +0200 +++ ports_powerpc_index-workingcopy.wml 2011-05-20 22:27:01.0 +0200 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ p Debian

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-05-20 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, David Prévot dav...@altern.org wrote: Le 20/05/2011 16:33, Holger Wansing a écrit : [CC'ing debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed to that list] http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ In this list the squeeze release is not listed. Do you

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-05-20 Thread David Prévot
://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ In this list the squeeze release is not listed. Do you want me to commit such patch? --- ports_powerpc_index-orig.wml2011-05-20 22:25:28.0 +0200 +++ ports_powerpc_index-workingcopy.wml 2011-05-20 22:27:01.0 +0200 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ p

fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-19 Thread m laks
after all my trouble with sound before i decided to start from scratch i decided to reinstall because i had trouble with sound. so after fresh install of squeeze desktop and then add in mpg321 from debian-mulitmedia then still no sound using module-assistant to compile alsa modules

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-19 Thread br...@quantifier.org
I don't know what hardware you're using, but on my g3 ibook, I've always had to run the 'alsaconf' command and then 'alsactrl restore' and then the sound just magically worked. However, with the release of squeeze, alsaconf is missing. I don't know why: http://www.google.com/search?q

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* br...@quantifier.org [110519 17:21 -0400]: I don't know what hardware you're using, but on my g3 ibook, I've always had to run the 'alsaconf' command and then 'alsactrl restore' and then the sound just magically worked. However, with the release of squeeze, alsaconf is missing. I don't

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-19 Thread m laks
my machine is a g4 ibook 2004. your trick worked. i do have good sound now. however i am not really sure what is going on. because now i have noticed that the problem was probably mpg321 which plays gibberish still. rhythmbox and yauap worked fine. i just think that the mpg321 is messed up.

debian ppc squeeze video weird rectangle

2011-05-14 Thread br...@quantifier.org
At first, I just went back to Lenny (something I'm thinking of doing today, since someone lost alsaconf in squeeze, and my sound does not work without this magical command). Lenny brought a xorg.conf which was for the 12 screen. If you have the 14 screen, then this should work for you. You

webcam works in ubuntu natty (pc) but not in debian-ppc squeeze (mac mini g4)

2011-05-13 Thread roger
Hi all, I posted on this subject about a month ago but got no replies. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/04/msg00058.html I want to set up a mac mini g4 as a video capture server, but there seems to be a problem with gspca in debian-ppc. I noticed that debian is using an older

Re: webcam works in ubuntu natty (pc) but not in debian-ppc squeeze (mac mini g4)

2011-05-13 Thread Tom@gmail
from squeeze because the package doesn't (didn't?) comply with Debian policy. You could try contacting the maintainer and pestering him or her to update the package. Or you maybe could compile from source? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-05-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2011-05-07 at 23:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: 2011/5/6 Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org: Hmm weird, probably an X driver bug. Does the option have any effect on the distortion of 3D apps though? I reenabled ColorTiling and the weird problems that affected Emacs (and other

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-05-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Michel. 2011/5/6 Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org: Hmm weird, probably an X driver bug. Does the option have any effect on the distortion of 3D apps though? I reenabled ColorTiling and the weird problems that affected Emacs (and other applications) are gone. Should this be filed in any

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2011-05-05 at 13:12 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: On May 05 2011, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 15:26 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: * When I use any 3D application, I get distorted output, as you can see in the pictures in the URL above. Does Option

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-05-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 15:26 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: 2011/5/3 Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org: Probably the radeon driver is loaded from the initrd (or even built into the kernel), but the firmware is not available in the same place. Well, now I could make KMS work:

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-05-05 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Gerhard. On May 04 2011, Gerhard Pircher wrote: Correct me, if I'm wrong, but I think you have to disable the radeonfb driver with video=radeonfb:off to get radeon KMS working. I did not know that. It works. I think that this can be added to the PowerPC wiki page. Thanks, -- Rogério

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-05-05 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, once again, Michel. On May 05 2011, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mit, 2011-05-04 at 15:26 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: I had to compile my own kernel, because just passing video=radeon to a regular Debian kernel doesn't supersede radeonfb, even if I make sure that radeon is in the initrd.

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