Trouble installing on iBook G4

2024-09-05 Thread Cedar Maxwell
start over. Anyways, I'm guessing someone has probably had this same issue with this port before and that the powerpc port differs from x86 linux in this regard, so I thought I'd just ask the mailing list. Can anyone offer advice? -- Sincerely, Cedar Maxwell

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

2024-09-11 Thread Cedar Maxwell
I appreciate your hard work and dedication to this old platform. On 9/5/24 15:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Cedar, On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 14:16 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: I just installed the latest stable Debian iso on my iBook G4, but the grub bootloader install failed during the in

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-20 Thread Cedar Maxwell
GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- Sincerely, Cedar Maxwell

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-22 Thread Cedar Maxwell
Hello Adrian, I'm not sure how to take a screenshot.  I can take a photo later.  I tried this image: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/powerpc/ and it works. On 10/21/24 01:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Cedar, On Sun, 2024-10-20 at 22:38 -0500, Cedar Maxwell

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

2024-10-22 Thread Cedar Maxwell
Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2024-09-19 at 22:49 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: Great, which one is the proper image? Sorry, I was too busy and forgot looking for the recommended image. I went ahead and tried this one:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ The Ethern

iBook G4 can't start NetworkManager

2024-10-26 Thread Cedar Maxwell
twork connection, or am I trodden down the wrong path?).  From lspci it appears Debian detects the Ethernet controller just fine.  Attached are the outputs of some relevant commands. Please advise. -- Sincerely, Cedar Maxwell processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2024-11-11

2024-11-12 Thread Cedar Maxwell
and, correct me if I'm wrong, therefore cannot start a graphical environment. On 11/12/24 17:16, Cedar Maxwell wrote: Hello Adrian, I successfully installed on my iBook G4 (PowerBook 6,7) using this image. On 11/11/24 11:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello, I have created a fresh se

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2024-11-11

2024-11-12 Thread Cedar Maxwell
not having agreed on finally making the switch from 2-byte to 4-byte alignment. Adrian [1]https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-11-11/ [2]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085949 -- Sincerely, Cedar Maxwell

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

2024-09-21 Thread Cedar Maxwell
working image.  Does the image I used fit this description? On 9/20/24 01:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I went ahead and tried this one:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ -- Sincerely, Cedar Maxwell

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

2024-09-19 Thread Cedar Maxwell
: Hi Cedar, On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 16:51 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: Thank you for your reply.  Here is the link to the image I used: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/powerpc That one doesn't work. Let me pick the proper image for you first as further discussions should be based on

Re: Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-6.12.17-powerpc64

2025-07-19 Thread Cedar Maxwell
Thank you sir, this solved my problem. Cedar Maxwell On Mon, 2025-07-07 at 19:42 +0100, James Madgwick wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:05:48 +0200 > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 15:06 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > > Continue? [Y/n] y

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

2025-07-19 Thread Cedar Maxwell
This package provides a tool for extracting BCM43xx wireless chip firmware from Broadcom's proprietary driver files. . It is used by the firmware-b43(legacy)-installer packages as part of the automated process of downloading and installing firmware. Please advise. Thanks, Cedar Maxwell On Thu, 20

Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-6.12.17-powerpc64

2025-07-06 Thread Cedar Maxwell
Hello everyone, I am experiencing the following errors. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks cedar@Power-Macintosh-G5:~$ sudo apt update [sudo] password for cedar: Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease [74.2 kB] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

2025-07-21 Thread Cedar Maxwell
Adrian: I'm still facing the same problem. Thanks, Cedar Maxwell On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 19:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Cedar, > > On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 12:40 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > It looks like this bug is already being tracked here: > > h

Re: Firefox 133 test package for ppc64

2025-07-21 Thread Cedar Maxwell
Is there any update on fixing Firefox for 32-bit PowerPC? On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 21:37 +0100, James Madgwick wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2025 09:55:50 -0700 > Ken Cunningham wrote: > > > I had never tried firefox 138 with the MATE desktop before, so > > can't > > know if removing the .mozilla directo

Re: apm_emu module missing

2025-07-23 Thread Cedar Maxwell
ian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 2025-07-23 at 09:39 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > Was your patch ever accepted?  I am also looking to fix my XFCE > > battery > > monitor. > > Care to post a link to the patch, please? > > Adrian

Re: apm_emu module missing

2025-07-23 Thread Cedar Maxwell
Hello Riccardo and Ed, Was your patch ever accepted? I am also looking to fix my XFCE battery monitor. Thanks, Cedar On Fri, 2024-10-18 at 11:29 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Ed Robbins wrote: > > However if the apm_emu module would be useful for other desktop > > environments I can

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

2025-07-20 Thread Cedar Maxwell
ile processing: firmware-b43-installer Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) It looks like this bug is already being tracked here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1109025 Thanks, Cedar Maxwell On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 09:21 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wr

Re: Firefox 133 test package for ppc64

2025-07-23 Thread Cedar Maxwell
I found Luakit (in the repo) works very well. It plays YouTube better on my iBook G4 than Firefox does on my PowerMac G5. Yet it has only been mentioned twice ever in this mailing list. Cedar On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 23:33 +1000, Damien Stewart wrote: > On 7/7/25 6:37 am, James Madgwick wrote: > >

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

2025-07-22 Thread Cedar Maxwell
My problem is now solved, thank you very much sir. Cedar On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 07:29 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, 2025-07-21 at 19:58 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > I'm still facing the same problem. > > I only pushed the fix for ppc64 yesterday and

bug in grilo-plugins-0.3

2025-08-03 Thread Cedar Maxwell
When I try to use media players with grilo-plugins (for uPnP support), I receive this message: cedar@ibook-g4:~$ totem (org.gnome.Totem:6704): Grilo-WARNING **: 21:49:31.009: [dleyna] ../src/dleyna/grl-dleyna-servers-manager.c:138: Unable to fetch the list of available servers: GDBus.Error:org.fr