xserver screen resolution problem
Hello, I'm running debian lenny here on a G4 processor with ATI Rage 128 graphic card. All works fine up to now except the xserver screen resolution. It seems to be fixed to 800x600 and I can't find where / how to change it. My monitor supports 1280x1024, and KDE on 800x600 sucks... Although I googled up and down the net I didn't find a working solution to my problem. Anyone here knows what I must do to get this fixed? I'm still a newbie on linux, so I'd be glad to receive some more detailed support. ;) Thanks, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128
Hello, I'm running debian lenny here on a G4 processor with ATI Rage 128 graphic card. All works fine up to now except the xserver screen resolution. It seems to be fixed to 800x600 and I can't find where / how to change it. My monitor supports 1280x1024, and KDE on 800x600 sucks... Although I googled up and down the net I didn't find a working solution to my problem. Anyone here knows what I must do to get this fixed? I'm still a newbie on linux, so I'd be glad to receive some more detailed support. ;) Thanks, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128
Rick, thanks for your response. I took your xorg.conf and tried it on my system - no luck, unfortunately. KDE still starts in 800x600 resolution and there is no option to change it. The monitor control panel only shows "800x600" in the dropdown menu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128
Hi Clark, thanks for this hint. I tried it, but no success... resolution still remains at 800x600... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128
Ugly solution: > Find an old live CD that gives the right resolution (on my iBook G3, > Ubuntu Gutsy works) Hi James, thanks for the reply. I don't have an old live CD tho. :/ tc Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#107054: Doesn't send data to lpr on powerpc!
[ resent, had wrong d-powerpc@ address --edd ] tags 107054 moreinfo quit Adam, "Adam" == Adam Goode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Package: a2ps Version: 4.13b-10 Severity: normal Adam> Adam> After processing, a2ps generally sends its output to lpr for Adam> printing. On powerpc, /etc/a2ps.cfg was modified to send its output Every architecture is built automatically without human intervention, using an automatic compile-time detection scheme. If something is wrong on powerpc, it probably means that the built process was somehow disturbed / confused / unusual. Maybe it was as simple as the lpr package not being available or some such. Adam> to cat instead. This results in a lot of postscript code on screen, Adam> and nothing put to paper. Now, could you send me the actual entry for this? Adam> This behavior doesn't make sense, so it would probably be best to Adam> change it to what it is on i386. (/etc/a2ps.cfg can also be fixed to Adam> use something like gs instead of acroread while printing pdf files.) As said above, this happens automatically. Regards, Dirk -- Our mailserver had a hardware failure while we were gone. Mail may have gone missing -- if I did not respond to a mail you sent recently, or experienced a mail bounce, could you kindly resend it? Sorry for the inconvenience --Dirk
Need help with #107054
Hi powerpc'ers Could someone help me with 107054 -- it appears that configure failed to locate lpr on this arch. Is / was there a known bug? Anything else I need to know to fix this? Dirk -- Our mailserver had a hardware failure while we were gone. Mail may have gone missing -- if I did not respond to a mail you sent recently, or experienced a mail bounce, could you kindly resend it? Sorry for the inconvenience --Dirk
Re: Need help with #107054
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:29:46PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Could someone help me with 107054 -- it appears that configure failed to > > locate lpr on this arch. Is / was there a known bug? Anything else I need > > to > > know to fix this? > > It would be the expected behavior if a2ps does not build depend on lpr. > Dan builds in a chroot environment which usually does not include lpr. But > I'm sure he can verify that in a minute. I don't have access to my package sources right now, but I believe that I did add Build-Depends on lpr (as well as quite a few other things a2ps looks for as filter), and even have an explicit Conflict with lprng as well. And recall that all other archs build just fine. Only you guys are causing trouble ;-) Dirk -- Our mailserver had a hardware failure while we were gone. Mail may have gone missing -- if I did not respond to a mail you sent recently, or experienced a mail bounce, could you kindly resend it? Sorry for the inconvenience --Dirk
Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:25:41 -0400 Rick Thomas wrote: > > Is it possible that PowerPC CD builds have been down for over three > weeks and nobody noticed? Desktops with PowerPC are uncommon for nearly 4 years now (Apple switched to intel...), HPC and embedded are not typical fields for testing (and CDs). Dirk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Need help with afio on powerpc
A while back, Dieter Schuster reported (and then kindly fixed with a patch) an issue with afio files on 32-bit powerpc systems [ cf #144986 ]. Today I received a new bug report, and patch, by Stephen van Egmond for 64-bit powerpc systems [ cf #153948 ]. I would greatly appreciate help from powerpc-savvy users who could reconcile both patches. Any takers? Thanks in advance, Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:10:17PM -0400, Stephen van Egmond wrote: > Here is a new patch to address the compile-time issues > of afio. It supersedes the earlier patch I provided, and > should be applied to 2.4.7-2. > > I hope that I'm providing these patches right. I'm producing > them with diff -ur . Thanks! It certainly built right, resolved all -Wall warnings and seems to work fine -- it reacts correctly to -t on old afio files and build new ones. Before I upload this, though, I'd love to hear from Koen, and input from Didi on behaviour on his powerpc would be nice too. Also, any word from the powerpc folks? Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > Hello, > > Am Mit, den 24 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:10:17PM -0400, Stephen van Egmond wrote: > > > Here is a new patch to address the compile-time issues > > > of afio. It supersedes the earlier patch I provided, and > > > should be applied to 2.4.7-2. > > > > > > I hope that I'm providing these patches right. I'm producing > > > them with diff -ur . > > > > Thanks! It certainly built right, resolved all -Wall warnings and seems to > > work fine -- it reacts correctly to -t on old afio files and build new ones. > > The new archivs are buggy. If I make afio -t on them the following > errors appear: Thanks for checking. There is the odd chance that your version isn't quite like mine -- I should have made the package available for you right away. You can now get them at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/UnderReview/ Would you mind testing with that package? Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
> Am Don, den 25 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > > > The new archivs are buggy. If I make afio -t on them the following > > > errors appear: > > > > Thanks for checking. There is the odd chance that your version isn't quite > > like mine -- I should have made the package available for you right away. > > You can now get them at > > > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/UnderReview/ > > > > Would you mind testing with that package? > > It shows the same error :-( Damn. Not sure what we should do next, and why it works for Stephen. Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
Stephen had kindly provided a new patch which I incorporated into a revised 2.4.7-6 release candidate to be found at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/UnderReview I also added a 'test' target for Debian rules which creates an archive of the sources, minus the debian/ directory, and then verifies it. Should any one of our build arches have difficulties, this might in fact find it. Didi: Could you test this version once more? Thanks! My thanks to all the patch providers, especially Stephen. Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
Hi Koen, Good to know you're back. > Just got back from a vacation without e-mail. I've been reading over > the powerpc thread but it will take me a bit to say something > intelligent... > > BTW I do not have access to a powerpc system. Me neither. I think what we need at this point is to short-circuit something between Dieter, Stephen and you. Stephen has been working hard to wrestle this bug down, but it keeps popping up on Dieter's machine. We should also make sure that you (Koen) have Stephen latest set of patches. You could start from the .diff.gz that gets built in the Debian package building process and which is on the url on my box I posted. I'll also try to remember to send it to you tonight. Cheers, Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless.
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
> 6) I agree completely with Stephen's conclusions that there may be >more endianness bugs lurking, so in the short term, I recommend to >Dirk that any afio release on debian that pretends to be stable >should omit the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE options >in the powerpc builds so as to avoid any endianness bugs. Very good suggestion. We actually do not pretend to be stable right now as we just released, but I will back that out. I'll just carry the make(1) code I use in debian/rules into your upstream Makefile to have an if/else branch on the build arch and will omit these two switches in -6. With that change, I will release -6 into Debian "unstable". I added code to debian/rules to write, and verify, a simple afio archive from the afio sources. All 11 build arches will run this, that should give us a pointer as to whether these compile-time options cause trouble on any other architecture. > 8) HOWEVER some parts of this patch I do not want to fold into the >main afio tree, in particular I do not want to have any assumption Just do double-check -- you're ok with releasing it into Debian unstable? Bye, Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless.
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Koen Holtman wrote: > Yes, if you want to release -6 into unstable with these makefile > changes, I am OK with that. That worked fairly well. From http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=afio * 2.4.7-6 (s390) (latest build at Aug 1 23:32: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (arm) (latest build at Aug 1 23:32: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (mipsel) (latest build at Aug 1 23:32: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (hppa) (latest build at Aug 1 23:34: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (m68k) (latest build at Aug 1 23:47: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (alpha) (latest build at Aug 2 00:10: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (ia64) (latest build at Aug 2 03:25: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (powerpc) (latest build at Aug 2 00:14: successful) * 2.4.7-6 (sparc) (latest build at Aug 2 06:52: successful) All of these should have run an actual test using the new binary, so we now know that the problem really is powerpc specific. All bug powerpc have -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE set. I made a mistake, though, the test is only used in binary-indep, it was not called in binary-arch. Darn. Next round. Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
> I should problably mention that the bug with the large inode numbers (e.g. > after recompiling X) that was discussed earlier today will affect the afio > build on all platforms. Yes, I know. But I made my release last night 21:00 Central time before I got that message. Stephen: Could you test Koen's suggested fix? I'd make a -7 release given that my 'create and verify an afio archive' idea didn't work due to my use of the wrong hook in debian/rules. Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless.
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
Koen, > FYI: this evening I'll be going over the -6 version which I downloaded > earlier from > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/edd/code/debian/UnderReview/ Or if you want, you could use the actually released -6 version I made last night. Should be on any Debian mirror, eg, here: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/afio.html however it does still show -5 rather -6. Hm. > When I'm done (hopefully by the end of the evening) I'll mail around a > patch file with the fix for the inode bug and any other changes/fixes I > can come up with. Great -- much appreciated. I'll prepare an informal -7 that for Stephen and Dieter to test, and can then try to release that say on Sunday or Monday. > Dirk: if you'd rather see a patch file against another version, tell me > how to obtain that other version. The later -6 version with the build > chanes might be available somewhere on the debian site, but on a quick > look I could not find an obvious place to check. Try the link above. But the only change between the unreleased -6 and the real one was the conditional setting of CFLAGS1 in your Makefile depending on whether or not we are on powerpc. The code itself is unchanged. Cheers, Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless.
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 04:12:56PM -0700, Koen Holtman wrote: > Attached is a diff file, which should be applied against the > pre-release -6 version (still??) at > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/edd/code/debian/UnderReview/ > > to get a version I call afio-2.4.7-6kh1 -- Dirk will merge this with > some of his makefile changes and release it as debian unstable > afio-2.4.7-7, which should be test-able on powerpc. I have done this. The files are available at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/UnderReview/ [ where you shouldn't need the edd/ before code ] I have left the conditional compilation for powerpc in -- all others get support for large files, powerpc doesn't. We can change that, I wasn't quite sure what Koen's recommendation was. Cheers, Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:03:23PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > It seems to work without error for me too. I using also the 64-bit > settings. Excellent. Let me contact Norbert Veber who did the >2gb patch for i386 to see if that still works for him, and then -7 gets ready. Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
All, > Thanks for all the testing of my recent patched version. Good to hear > that it works.. Yep, thanks for all for the great cooperation and feedback, > BUT based on the tests by Stephen and Dieter I now recommend that in > the 2.4.7-7 unstable version, the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE flags are enabled on all platforms including > powerpc, because without them writing a >2GB archive should not work > (according to my limited understanding so far of the large file > support documentation). Fully agreed. I'll remove the conditional expression in the Makefile, i.e. ship your Makefile with the two flags enabled on all platforms. Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks
Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
Big thanks to everybody -- Stephen for writing patches, Dieter for calmly knocking down back out of their socks, and to Koen for cleaning it all up. According to http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=afio we are starting to look more golden: * 2.4.7-7 (mipsel) (latest build at Aug 3 17:33: successful) * 2.4.7-7 (s390) (latest build at Aug 3 17:33: successful) * 2.4.7-7 (alpha) (latest build at Aug 3 17:36: successful) * 2.4.7-7 (hppa) (latest build at Aug 3 17:37: successful) * 2.4.7-7 (sparc) (latest build at Aug 3 17:40: successful) * 2.4.7-7 (arm) (latest build at Aug 3 17:47: successful) * 2.4.7-7 (powerpc) (latest build at Aug 3 20:46: successful) In case you haven't been there -- that page ref'ed above contains links, and you can see the glorious details for all these arches, including the (yay!) successful creatin and verfication of an afio archive. We still have to test support >2gb, but at least we have powerpc back in under the 'large file' build-time flags. Thanks, again. Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks
Bug#111532: octave2.1: cannot download package using apt-get on ppc
Hi Akmal, "Akmal" == Akmal Abdul Rahman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Akmal> Package: octave2.1 Akmal> Version: N/A Akmal> Severity: normal Akmal> Akmal> apt-get complains that there is no installation candidate. This I know -- we need to get this compiled, but I need help from the debian-powerpc crew for that. You could also help. Are you comfortable compiling a local .deb package? I'd be happy to walk you through. Your success or failure would help me in pressuring the Debian porting crew :) Akmal> package is quite important because octave2.0 is also broken on ppc. Err, how come? I see that 2.0.16.92-6, the most recent version, exists for powerpc in the archive. Could you detail how it breaks? Dirk -- Our DSL access will be shut off September 10 due to the bankruptcy of Rhythms, and the inability of Ameritech to respond in a timely fashion. An optimistic view is that we might be back online by the end of September. -- Dirk
Re: Bug#111532: octave2.1: cannot download package using apt-get on ppc
"Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:44:58PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Akmal> Package: octave2.1 Version: N/A Severity: normal Akmal> Akmal> apt-get complains that there is no installation candidate. This Dirk> I know -- we need to get this compiled, but I need help from the Dirk> debian-powerpc crew for that. Dirk> Dirk> You could also help. Are you comfortable compiling a local .deb Dirk> package? I'd be happy to walk you through. Your success or failure Dirk> would help me in pressuring the Debian porting crew :) Daniel> No, you don't. Voltaire.debian.org is up again, as it almost Daniel> always is. I'm glad to help if you need it, but rebuilds don't Daniel> need me :) Ah. Will try. Daniel> As it is, you're stuck on atlas2-dev. That's an unresolved issue. No longer (see below), Camm invented the /nice/ scheme whereby we compile against blas-dev which is available everywhere and provides basic lin. algebra. Where available, atlas2 blas can be loaded instead. Works wonders (minus a libc/ldconfig bug that upstream disagrees with). Same for r-base which I also need recompiled (I did a few NMUs for Doug). Dirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep Build-Depends debian/octave2.1-2.1.34/debian/control Build-Depends: debhelper, autoconf, tetex-bin, texinfo, g77 [!m68k], f2c \ [m68k], libreadline4-dev, libncurses5-dev, gperf, blas-dev (>= 1.0-9), \ gnuplot, libhdf5-serial-dev [i386] -- Our DSL access will be shut off September 10 due to the bankruptcy of Rhythms, and the inability of Ameritech to respond in a timely fashion. An optimistic view is that we might be back online by the end of September. -- Dirk
Need help with afio on powerpc
A little while back, I applied a patch to afio by our own Norbert Veber, and blessed upstream, to enable afio to work on archives >2gb. This was #110853. It added some sort of 64bit arithmetic flag We now have #144986 -- it appears that powerpc is confused by this. Could some kind soul with powerpc knowledge shed some light on this. Does the 32/64 bit nature of powerpc play into this? Many thanks, Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with afio on powerpc
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 04:46, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > A little while back, I applied a patch to afio by our own Norbert Veber, and > > blessed upstream, to enable afio to work on archives >2gb. This was #110853. > > It added some sort of 64bit arithmetic flag > > > > We now have #144986 -- it appears that powerpc is confused by this. Could > > some kind soul with powerpc knowledge shed some light on this. Does the > > 32/64 > > bit nature of powerpc play into this? > > Let's start with the usual suspects, in particular endianness. Are all > the types correct? If 64 bit variables are treated as 32 bit, that could > work on little endian systems but not big endian... Excellent point. Any volunteers willing to do some tests or study afio's source? Dieter: Do you want to try? I'm sure Michael would gladly assist with a few emails. Dirk (tied up this week) -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#289134: GSL 1.6-1 FTBFS on powerpc
In response to the mail by Andre Lehovich dated 24 January 2005 at 17:36: | I just successfully compiled GSL 1.6-1 on my G4 (Sarge | environment). Since I didn't have to patch anything, I | think that Dirk's suspicion is correct, i.e. the problem is | a configuration bug on the buildd server. | | One potential clue are the failed tests hidden in the middle | of the buildd log [1]. (Search for "FAIL: test"). I have | no idea what is causing that; the same tests passed on my | machine. | | [1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=gsl&ver=1.6-1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1104990349&file=log&as=raw | | The compile log looks uninteresting, but I can forward it if | someone thinks it would be useful. And as I said before, gsl had never ever failed on this arch before. I truly believe this to be a spurious issue on the host, and not a FTBFS. So could someone with a powerpc buildd *please* reschedule a build? Thanks, Dirk | | --Andre | -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian testing with hardware raid (ide) on powermac g3?
Hi folks, I run a lot of debian boxes, but all of them are x86. That sure is a pity. So I tried installing debian testing on a Powermac G3 (blue & white), 300 MHz. And it worked! Sorry for the astonishment, but I never tried before. Next thing I tried: Plugging in a 3ware 7000 into the mac and installing again. The sarge installer even tried loading the 3ware module but then claimed "modprobe -v 3ware..." to have failed. Is there anything I can do about that? I think if there is a module for 3ware controllers in the powerpc distri it must make sense running these cards on a powerpc, or not? I was not sure if they run inside a mac at all. Okay, if it does not work with 3ware, are there any experiences out there with other hardware raid cards (like acard or whatever) that work in a G3/300 that is running debian? I would LOVE to hear something like that, because then there would be a great new job for quite some of these machines here! Thanks for any hint or help. Dirk PS: I googled around a lot for these three key words (3ware, powermac g3, debian), but did not find anything that contained all of them in a related manner. Is it that new an idea to try?
