from:"Richard Kuenz"

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-27 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello ,

i am on a fresh install of Debian Wheezy kernel 3.2 on Powermac G5  
Dual (model 7,3) with Radeon 9600XT - very nice.


atm i am compiling Mpv player

Can someone please give me a hint how to enable sound on this machine?


thanks

richard


ps. i won a Nvidia Ultra 6800 Dual - will i be able to use on this  
Powermac g5 in conjunction with Linux?



Zitat von Logan Anteau :


Hi Peter,

Yes you're right, I did reach out to the Nouveau mailing list. So far I
haven't received any replies on that. I have spoken in #nouveau to
"imirkin" and he has not had many ideas. He poked "skeggsb" about it, but
never received much of a response from him..

I have only one monitor connected currently. I'm 95% sure that you're
right, this is the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL. Thanks for that link, pretty
interesting stuff. This machine is neat because it is kind of a unicorn,
but clearly that is causing me trouble with nouveau.

I tried your suggestion of booting with nouveau.duallink=0. That didn't
help and I still got the Xorg.log message of both DVI outputs being
connected. Here's my current Xorg.log:

http://pastebin.com/xSuRSYSC

Please please please keep the suggestions coming if you have them!

Logan

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Peter Saisanas  wrote:


Hi Logan,

I was hoping that you would reply, i'm curious what your issue is with
nouveau.
I did see that you have placed a message on the nouveau mailing list, good
stuff!

For others interested on the Debian PPC mailing list, i have copied the
link to your message on the nouveau mailing list which you have included an
xorg log.
Link Below:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2016-January/023853.html

Looking at your xorg log, how many displays do you actually have
connected? one or two displays?

[25.454] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-I-1 connected
[25.454] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-I-2 connected

According to your log, nouveau seems to believe you have two DVI ports
occupied? Is this actually correct or has nouveau somehow gotten confused?

I have found this interesting page about the Geforce 6800 Ultra DDL. is
this the model GPU used in your Powermac G5?
Link Below:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/1581/2

Maybe, just maybe, could the dual-link TMDS nouveau module option (which
apparently is enabled by default), possibly be screwing around with the
screen detection for some reason?

If possible, could you please try disabling the nouveau dual-link TMDS
module parameter option and let me know what happens.

parm:   duallink:Allow dual-link TMDS (default: enabled) (int)

Looking at your all of your logs, it seems like nouveau should work, what
i mentioned above could possibly be your last hurdle to ppc nouveau nirvana!

Please humour me!

Cheers,
Peter

Re-Post to " Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues "

2017-02-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello ,


this is a repost to  messages here please someone may help

http://debian-powerpc.debian.narkive.com/kr93F3ID/debian-8-on-late-2005-g5-graphics-issues

i was away sometime from Debian@PPC after having sold my PowerMacG5 with 
AGP -

got a Powermac G5 quad withGTX7800 and am very happpy with it .
today got installed Wheezy withouth problems,

everything run smooth from beginning, sound came back after short tweak,

but wanted to compile kodi right from start and run in issue with gcc+ 
compiler too low 4.6 > 4.7+ would have been needed ... so i decided to 
upgrade to jessie.


now i have this graphic glitch , and i cannot do anything , no login ,
no exiting,

so my question is how can i prevent when booting debian jessie to come 
to this "graphical glitch" so that i can install this 3.18.kernel from 
Mr. Peter Saisanas that i downloaded?



Thank you very much + sorry for the Newbie Interruption.


Cheers + Happy Good Night.

Rich

Re: Re-Post to " Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues "

2017-02-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello,

this passage does not work here

install the kernel using the command:
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64_2_powerpc.deb

Once installed you need to edit yaboot.conf

Use the following command:
sudo nano /etc/yaboot.conf

Append the following text exactly as listed at the end of the file:

image=/boot/vmlinux-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64
label=test
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64
append=""

Save yaboot.conf

Apply yaboot config with following command:

sudo ybin -v

Reboot your G5 and when prompted, ensure you enter "test" for the label
in yaboot bootloader.





When i type

"sudo ybin -v"

after the above

i get

ybin: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA-WDC... -part2: No such file or directory

On 08.02.17 23:22, Richard Kuenz wrote:

Hello ,


this is a repost to  messages here please someone may help

http://debian-powerpc.debian.narkive.com/kr93F3ID/debian-8-on-late-2005-g5-graphics-issues


i was away sometime from Debian@PPC after having sold my PowerMacG5 with
AGP -
got a Powermac G5 quad withGTX7800 and am very happpy with it .
today got installed Wheezy withouth problems,

everything run smooth from beginning, sound came back after short tweak,

but wanted to compile kodi right from start and run in issue with gcc+
compiler too low 4.6 > 4.7+ would have been needed ... so i decided to
upgrade to jessie.

now i have this graphic glitch , and i cannot do anything , no login ,
no exiting,

so my question is how can i prevent when booting debian jessie to come
to this "graphical glitch" so that i can install this 3.18.kernel from
Mr. Peter Saisanas that i downloaded?


Thank you very much + sorry for the Newbie Interruption.


Cheers + Happy Good Night.

Rich

Re: Re-Post to " Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues "

2017-02-08 Thread Richard Kuenz

Thanks,

it worked after fresh install of Jessie - ready to explore now.


Happy good night


Am 08.02.2017 um 23:47 schrieb Richard Kuenz:

> Hello,
> 
> this passage does not work here
> 
> install the kernel using the command:
> sudo dpkg -i linux-image-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64_2_powerpc.deb
> 
> Once installed you need to edit yaboot.conf
> 
> Use the following command:
> sudo nano /etc/yaboot.conf
> 
> Append the following text exactly as listed at the end of the file:
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinux-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64
> label=test
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64
> append=""
> 
> Save yaboot.conf
> 
> Apply yaboot config with following command:
> 
> sudo ybin -v
> 
> Reboot your G5 and when prompted, ensure you enter "test" for the label
> in yaboot bootloader.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> When i type
> 
> "sudo ybin -v"
> 
> after the above
> 
> i get
> 
> ybin: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA-WDC... -part2: No such file or directory
> 
> On 08.02.17 23:22, Richard Kuenz wrote:
>> Hello ,
>> 
>> 
>> this is a repost to  messages here please someone may help
>> 
>> http://debian-powerpc.debian.narkive.com/kr93F3ID/debian-8-on-late-2005-g5-graphics-issues
>> 
>> 
>> i was away sometime from Debian@PPC after having sold my PowerMacG5 with
>> AGP -
>> got a Powermac G5 quad withGTX7800 and am very happpy with it .
>> today got installed Wheezy withouth problems,
>> 
>> everything run smooth from beginning, sound came back after short tweak,
>> 
>> but wanted to compile kodi right from start and run in issue with gcc+
>> compiler too low 4.6 > 4.7+ would have been needed ... so i decided to
>> upgrade to jessie.
>> 
>> now i have this graphic glitch , and i cannot do anything , no login ,
>> no exiting,
>> 
>> so my question is how can i prevent when booting debian jessie to come
>> to this "graphical glitch" so that i can install this 3.18.kernel from
>> Mr. Peter Saisanas that i downloaded?
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you very much + sorry for the Newbie Interruption.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers + Happy Good Night.
>> 
>> Rich

Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks

2017-03-07 Thread Richard Kuenz


this helped me alot installing on powerbook

http://mintppc.org/content/installation-mintppc-92

On 08.03.2017 00:31, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:

Here's a photo of the pertinent section: http://i.imgur.com/hHZyDfg.jpg

On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>> wrote:


From the installer menu, choose "Execute a shell". Then run the "bash"
command to get a proper shell.

From there, navigate to /var/log and locate the syslog file. You
should be able to upload that file using the scp command.

Adrian


On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:35 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto
mailto:macmani...@comcast.net>> wrote:

How might I retrieve that?




Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>>
wrote:

Wait!

I don't think it's an HDD issue.

Can you try to provide the /var/log/syslog file from the
installation process?

This will include the actual error messages.

Adrian


On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto mailto:sjobsro...@me.com>> wrote:

Alright, now I'm getting a "target installation failed" on the
"Install base system" phase. I think it's an issue with my HDD - I
never tested it before I installed it. Going to swap in a known
good one in a bit.


On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>> wrote:

On 03/07/2017 04:54 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:
1) did you have the original Apple hard drive and if so, how did
you format it?


I actually installed it onto an external Firewire drive. I also
don't think at
all that this is relevant because the firmware issues usually only
existed
on MacOS itself. One of the issues was that on MacOS versions
around 7.x,
Apple's own partitioning tool would refuse to partition a disk if
it didn't
have Apple's original firmware. You could use a patched version of the
utility to circumvent that.

The disk itself was blank.


2) what operating system did you burn the ISO with and how


I burnt the ISO on Linux. Please refrain from using tools like
unetbootin
or similar [1]. Lots of people have done that in the past and created
broken installer images.

Use a proper CD writing software and the unaltered ISO files directly
from Debian. Writing the ISO files with the software in OSX should
work fine as well. I used that in the past, too.

Adrian


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689


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can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


hello ,

have the following problem:


yesterday i tried to install Debian Jessie on my Powermac G5 11,2 on a 
second Harddrive (intel ssd) and it would install fine (i use guided 
partition, all on the selected harddrive)

but when i start, it would not boot,

"please wait, loading kernel"...
/ht@0, f20/pci@9/.. unknow or corrupt filesystem


i have to admit that i had already a linux on 2nd partition inside the 
first harddrive (WD HDD), but that Lubuntu got messed up after i let it 
update to 14.04.5 LTS (14.04.2 was still fine), so i tried to install 
fresh linux on SSD.



However, when i install Wheezy with the same method, no problem, it 
would install just fine and boot without problems.



Could it be that Jessie does not write correct yaboot.conf or reads it 
from 1st HDD (although i deleted the partition linux was one after some 
failed attempt).?

Re: can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


i don't know how to read yaboot.conf as it would stop at boot:
where when pressing TAB
it would show
Linux   old
is this normal on New Jessie installation?


However, when i install Debian Wheezy, same method, guided partition on 
SSD , it would install AND boot just fine.


So many problems with Debian Jessie i found, but on Powermac it seems it 
runs less noisyer which would be great.


On 08.03.2017 13:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

"please wait, loading kernel"...
/ht@0, f20/pci@9/.. unknow or corrupt filesystem


i have to admit that i had already a linux on 2nd partition inside the first
harddrive (WD HDD), but that Lubuntu got messed up after i let it update to
14.04.5 LTS (14.04.2 was still fine), so i tried to install fresh linux on
SSD.


Please provide the partition layout and partition type for the disk in
question.


However, when i install Wheezy with the same method, no problem, it would
install just fine and boot without problems.


This is far too vague. You are omitting too much information to be
able to analyze the problem and help you. We need to know the exact
layout of the disks. It's important whether the partition type used is
Mac, MS-DOS or GPT.


Could it be that Jessie does not write correct yaboot.conf or reads it from
1st HDD (although i deleted the partition linux was one after some failed
attempt).?


This also impossible to say unless you provide your actual
yaboot.conf.

Adrian

Re: can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz

so, i did the same install, on 2nd ssd, guided partition, with wheezy 
installer,


it boots

same installation jessie,

unknown or corrupt filesystem




On 08.03.2017 13:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

"please wait, loading kernel"...
/ht@0, f20/pci@9/.. unknow or corrupt filesystem


i have to admit that i had already a linux on 2nd partition inside the first
harddrive (WD HDD), but that Lubuntu got messed up after i let it update to
14.04.5 LTS (14.04.2 was still fine), so i tried to install fresh linux on
SSD.


Please provide the partition layout and partition type for the disk in
question.


However, when i install Wheezy with the same method, no problem, it would
install just fine and boot without problems.


This is far too vague. You are omitting too much information to be
able to analyze the problem and help you. We need to know the exact
layout of the disks. It's important whether the partition type used is
Mac, MS-DOS or GPT.


Could it be that Jessie does not write correct yaboot.conf or reads it from
1st HDD (although i deleted the partition linux was one after some failed
attempt).?


This also impossible to say unless you provide your actual
yaboot.conf.

Adrian

Re: can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello Adrian,

problem is that i can't access yaboot.conf unless i go live as far as i 
know because i am stuck at yaboot, so how should i do that with debian?

i would need to boot live a lubuntu image,

so i end up installing wheezy again and upgrading to jessie; seeing if 
that works


On 08.03.2017 13:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

"please wait, loading kernel"...
/ht@0, f20/pci@9/.. unknow or corrupt filesystem


i have to admit that i had already a linux on 2nd partition inside the first
harddrive (WD HDD), but that Lubuntu got messed up after i let it update to
14.04.5 LTS (14.04.2 was still fine), so i tried to install fresh linux on
SSD.


Please provide the partition layout and partition type for the disk in
question.


However, when i install Wheezy with the same method, no problem, it would
install just fine and boot without problems.


This is far too vague. You are omitting too much information to be
able to analyze the problem and help you. We need to know the exact
layout of the disks. It's important whether the partition type used is
Mac, MS-DOS or GPT.


Could it be that Jessie does not write correct yaboot.conf or reads it from
1st HDD (although i deleted the partition linux was one after some failed
attempt).?


This also impossible to say unless you provide your actual
yaboot.conf.

Adrian

Re: can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


1st hdd,
part1 free
part2 hfs+ boot
part3 hfs# osx
part4 hfs swap
part5 free (used to be new world parititon, swap, ext2)
part6 free

2nd hdd
part new world boot
part2 ext2 i think root
part3 swap

On 08.03.2017 13:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:32:49PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

so, i did the same install, on 2nd ssd, guided partition, with wheezy
installer,

it boots

same installation jessie,

unknown or corrupt filesystem


Why are you providing the partition layout?
Again, we cannot debug this issue if you don't provide any data.

Adrian

Re: can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz

yah, thats what i am doing right now, but there is a problem with 
installer, i guess.


On 08.03.2017 13:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:37:54PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

However, when i install Debian Wheezy, same method, guided partition on SSD
, it would install AND boot just fine.


If you don't want to debug the actual problem, why don't you just
upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie using APT? [1].

Adrian


[1] 
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

Re: can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


i did the upgrade already tonight,
and for some reason,
after installing kernel 4.5 ...
sudo ybin -v

failed on me,
i found out that the yaboot.conf parameters for the ssd were totally 
wrong, inconsitent

with the values in
 /dev/disk/by-id/

after fixing that, it would boot, but then say, oups, something went 
wrong , and fall back.


i will try again and report back, thanks

On 08.03.2017 13:50, Richard Kuenz wrote:

yah, thats what i am doing right now, but there is a problem with
installer, i guess.

On 08.03.2017 13:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:37:54PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

However, when i install Debian Wheezy, same method, guided partition
on SSD
, it would install AND boot just fine.


If you don't want to debug the actual problem, why don't you just
upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie using APT? [1].

Adrian


[1]
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

Re: can't install Debian Jessie - 2n hdd/SSD

2017-03-08 Thread Richard Kuenz


after upgrading to jessie,
it would boot, but fail to get to a proper desktop.

so i would press CTRL + AlT +F1
to get into terminal

there i would try  to install Kernel by Peter Saisanas 4.5.x

as he posted earlier




copy the kernel image deb file to your hdd.

install the kernel using the command:
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64_2_powerpc.deb

Once installed you need to edit yaboot.conf

Use the following command:
sudo nano /etc/yaboot.conf

Append the following text exactly as listed at the end of the file:

image=/boot/vmlinux-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64
label=test
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64
append=""

Save yaboot.conf

Apply yaboot config with following command:

sudo ybin -v

Reboot your G5 and when prompted, ensure you enter "test" for the label 
in yaboot bootloader.









but this i could not accomplish because during the process i would get 
message from graphic card and terminal would not allow me to see what i 
write more into it.




so i switch off / on,


then computer would no more boot after pressing "l" at yaboot

and Enter


it would show /./ unknown filesystem etc.


only when i type "old" it would boot,


same procedure with kernel is being tried,


but at

"sudo ybin -v"

it would say

ybin: /dev/disk/by-id/SATA-SCSI .part2: No such file or 
directory.



when i check in
/dev/disk/by-id/

lsls

it would say:

ata-HL-DT-ST
ata-INTEL_SSDSC2
ata-INTEL_SSDSC2part2
  " part3
  " part4
  " part5
ata-WDC_WD500AADS-
ata-WDC_WD500AADS-..part2 til 6


when i crosscheck at

sudo nano /etc/yaboot.conf

i would find

boot="/dev/disk/by-id/Sata-SCSI-Intel."
device=/ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/@1/@0
partition=3
root="UUID=dd2f6991-50b8-41a7-9551-5672e60606cd"
timeout=100
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
macosx"/dev/disk/by-id/Sata-SCSI-WDC_WD5000"


therefore i did change the bootstring to include the name found in 
/dev/disk/by-id/


boot="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2CW120A3-CVCV2145010M120BGN-part2"

and also for

macosx"/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00M2B0_WD-WCAV57062892-part3"




however, when i save and exit

and later evoke


sudo ybin -v


ybin: /dev/disk/by-id/ata ..no such file or directory
[2526.91688] ioctl32(nsentev:5613):unknown cmd fd(3) 
cmd(20007043)'p';sz:0 arg(0002) on /dev/nvram






On 08.03.2017 14:01, Richard Kuenz wrote:

i did the upgrade already tonight,
and for some reason,
after installing kernel 4.5 ...
sudo ybin -v

failed on me,
i found out that the yaboot.conf parameters for the ssd were totally
wrong, inconsitent
with the values in
 /dev/disk/by-id/

after fixing that, it would boot, but then say, oups, something went
wrong , and fall back.

i will try again and report back, thanks

On 08.03.2017 13:50, Richard Kuenz wrote:

yah, thats what i am doing right now, but there is a problem with
installer, i guess.

On 08.03.2017 13:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:37:54PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

However, when i install Debian Wheezy, same method, guided partition
on SSD
, it would install AND boot just fine.


If you don't want to debug the actual problem, why don't you just
upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie using APT? [1].

Adrian


[1]
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

Aw: Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks

2017-03-09 Thread Richard Kuenz

just got debian 8 instlled on imac g5 (isight model with radeon x1600) and am 
really happy that it worked oiut

the audio output on those imac is just great

but i am withouth firefox-extensions that i need badly

no extensions do install. i even downgraded to iceweasel via 
debian.wheezy.sources.

same result


did somone else notice this on debian jessie for powerpc? on debian squeeze and 
wheezy i could install easily.


thanks

> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 09. März 2017 um 19:50 Uhr
> Von: "Nicholas Dal Porto" 
> An: "Lennart Sorensen" 
> Cc: "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" , 
> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks
>
> I have the non-free package installed.
> 
> Here's the output of lspci -vvv: http://pastebin.com/raw/aQSVwyUW
> 
> I also have Network Manager installed. Anything I need to do there or with 
> any network config files?
> 
> > On Mar 9, 2017, at 7:45 AM, Lennart Sorensen  
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:28:57PM -0800, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:
> >> It was the RAM! Replaced it and it installed without a hitch. However, 
> >> Wireless isn't working. Anyone know a fix?
> > 
> > Did you enable non-free and install the firmware-linux-nonfree package?
> > 
> > Or perhaps a different nonfree firmware package specific to the wifi
> > device.
> > 
> > Check the dmesg output to see if it mentions a missing firmware file.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Len Sorensen
> > 
>

Re: Shutting down my PowerBook G4 doesn't really shut down?

2017-03-23 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hllo,

i have installed jessie on powerbook g4 1,67 and am very happy with 
sound and video.

can someone please show me how to achieve sleep when i shutdown lid?

thank you very much,

rich


ps. there is supposedly an error with those powerbooks as many don't 
recognize the second 1gb ram bank. i had this problem on osx and was not 
able to ssolve it; possible that under linux it behaves differently? 
does anyone have an experience with the ram being recognized in linux? 
would be great to have 2gb on my machine here.


Am 23/03/17 um 10:51 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

On 03/23/2017 10:43 AM, PhiLLip Pi wrote:

For some reason, now the old PB G4 shuts down. I will check if it
happens again.


I would recommend hooking up a serial console or a netconsole to watch
the kernel buffer while the machine is shutting down. This way you should
be able to track down at which point during shutdown it hangs.

Adrian

problems with wheezy and xbmc

2017-03-23 Thread Richard Kuenz




Hello ,

i have installed Debian Wheezy on my Powermac G5 Quad.


please help me to solve one problem i have with graphics. whether i use 
xbmc or kodi or mpv for videoplayback, it always comes with rasterised 
graphics;

no problem with vlc or mplayer or videoplayback directly on youtube.


this is some output


rich@debian:~$ glxinfo | grep -i renderer
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV47


rich@debian:~$ vblank_mode=0 glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
1946 frames in 5.3 seconds = 364.961 FPS
1946 frames in 5.0 seconds = 388.572 FPS




but


rich@debian:~$ xbmc
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1




what is wrong with my graphics?
the card should be capable it it is 7800gtx 256mb.


thank you very much

Re: problems with wheezy and xbmc

2017-03-23 Thread Richard Kuenz


Thank you very much,

i would have installed now


vdpau-va-driver



and output changes

rich@debian:~$ xbmc
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1





but the problem rasterized graphics remains.


someone in the kodi forum already told me about mesa something, but your 
mentioned driver-package seem awailable only from jessie-backports onto 
sid. what to do then?
and , if install this mesa thing, would this break something in 
graphics, because outside of xbmc and mpv it looks really good with this 
graphics.



regards,
rihard

On 23.03.2017 15:24, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:57:02PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

Hello ,

i have installed Debian Wheezy on my Powermac G5 Quad.


please help me to solve one problem i have with graphics. whether i use xbmc
or kodi or mpv for videoplayback, it always comes with rasterised graphics;
no problem with vlc or mplayer or videoplayback directly on youtube.


this is some output


rich@debian:~$ glxinfo | grep -i renderer
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV47


rich@debian:~$ vblank_mode=0 glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
1946 frames in 5.3 seconds = 364.961 FPS
1946 frames in 5.0 seconds = 388.572 FPS




but


rich@debian:~$ xbmc
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1

what is wrong with my graphics?
the card should be capable it it is 7800gtx 256mb.


Do you have the file it is mentioning?

It should be in mesa-va-drivers or vdpau-va-driver package.

Re: problems with wheezy and xbmc

2017-03-23 Thread Richard Kuenz


Thanks,

well, i basically never had problems with wheezy, besides minor issues.

also on powerpc wheezy was stable ; with jessie a whole different story,

so i try to stick with what works well for my hardware ... but i see 
cannot remain indefinitely on older software.
did already upgrade but then i did no more have graphical accelleration 
on jessie with nouveau(don't know why though) and had to install custom 
kernel to boot into GUI. - plus if i had gnome installed, i had to 
install kde first, then remove gnome, just to enter gui.

otherwise it would say "oh no, something happened.." and i am no lemming.
+ if i would install on powermac jessie directly from dvd, for some 
reason i was not able to install firefox extensions, which is really odd.


this debian is just a wonderful experience hope to find a workaround for 
wheez


On 23.03.2017 17:05, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 04:48:27PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote:

Thank you very much,

i would have installed now


vdpau-va-driver



and output changes

rich@debian:~$ xbmc
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1





but the problem rasterized graphics remains.


someone in the kodi forum already told me about mesa something, but your
mentioned driver-package seem awailable only from jessie-backports onto sid.
what to do then?
and , if install this mesa thing, would this break something in graphics,
because outside of xbmc and mpv it looks really good with this graphics.


No idea.  Any good reason for not running Jessie?

I see that vdpau-va-driver in wheezy does NOT include nouveau_drv_video.soA

Starting in jessie it exists in the package.

extneral soundcards not recognized /jessie /powerpc64

2017-03-25 Thread Richard Kuenz





Hello ,

i have installed fresh Jessie on Powermac G5 (PciE Quad Model) and like 
the System very much.


Everything seems to work, except my 2 external soundcards (Griffin 
Firewave via Firewire, and Digidesign MBox via USB)  not being recgnized.


Only Soundcard seems Shasta I/O Dummy which works fine; but i would need 
external soundcard due to failure of headphone jack to keep inserted 
headphones/speakers holt properly.



rich@debian:~$ aplay -l
 Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) 
Karte 0: SoundByLayout [SoundByLayout], Gerät 0: Master []
Sub-Geräte: 0/1
Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0


Any ideas on how to enable the external cards?

Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz

Hello ,

i would kindly need your help.

Got a very nice Powermac 7,3 Dual CPU with a Radeon 9650 Graphics Card. The 
System runs smooth and silent;


Would like to use Debian Wheezy on this Computer.

I installed it and it runs very fine, but i get no graphics acell.



Could someone here please show me a way on how to achieve this, without need of 
upgrading to Jessie et. al.
 — i tried already to install firmware-linux-nonfree and then the famous 
mate.debs for mesa , but this broke the system.


Thank you very much,

Wish you a great day,

Richard

Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz

Please consider this post obsolete


i will live without 3d acceleration on this computer for now



thank you for consideration


and sorry for disturbing


richie



> On 03 Apr 2017, at 17:07, Richard Kuenz  wrote:
> 
> Hello ,
> 
> i would kindly need your help.
> 
> Got a very nice Powermac 7,3 Dual CPU with a Radeon 9650 Graphics Card. The 
> System runs smooth and silent;
> 
> 
> Would like to use Debian Wheezy on this Computer.
> 
> I installed it and it runs very fine, but i get no graphics acell.
> 
> 
> 
> Could someone here please show me a way on how to achieve this, without need 
> of upgrading to Jessie et. al.
> — i tried already to install firmware-linux-nonfree and then the famous 
> mate.debs for mesa , but this broke the system.
> 
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Wish you a great day,
> 
> Richard

Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello ,

thank you very much for considering this


"glxinfo"

rich@debian:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
GLX_OML_swap_method,

GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multisample, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_texture,
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, 
GL_EXT_point_parameters,

GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,
GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_ARB_multitexture, 
GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays,

GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, 
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_fog_coord, 
GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,

GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_resize_buffers, 
GL_NV_blend_square,

GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_NV_texture_env_combine4, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_MESA_window_pos, 
GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil,

GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vertex_program, GL_ARB_depth_texture,
GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, GL_NV_depth_clamp,
GL_NV_fragment_program, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_vertex_program1_1,
GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object, 
GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, 
GL_ARB_shader_objects,

GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ATI_draw_buffers,
GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test,
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_MESA_pack_invert,
GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_ARB_depth_clamp, 
GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow,

GL_ARB_half_float_pixel, GL_ARB_occlusion_query2, GL_ARB_point_sprite,
GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_sync, 
GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two,

GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate,
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_OES_read_format,
GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object, GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc,
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc,
GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object, GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle,
GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent,
GL_ARB_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil,
GL_NV_fragment_program_option, GL_APPLE_object_purgeable,
GL_ARB_vertex_array_object, GL_ATI_separate_stencil,
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_EXT_draw_buffers2, 
GL_EXT_draw_instanced,

GL_EXT_gpu

Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz


"dmesg" fright after boot


sorry but i could not go up enough in terminal to catch first phrases


[  106.379882] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.386336] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.389599] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.393050] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.398380] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.404125] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.411236] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.414331] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.417940] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.423619] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.429620] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.434866] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.437580] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.440365] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.445106] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.450342] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.455345] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.458055] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.460839] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.465588] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.471068] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.477432] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.480240] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.483837] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.489203] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.494950] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.502204] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.505221] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.508946] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.514897] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.521056] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.526583] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.529211] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.532120] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.537101] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.542697] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.547951] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.550586] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.553469] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.558428] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.563851] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.570226] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.573206] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.576574] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.582085] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.587822] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.596256] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.599211] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.602835] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.608569] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.614725] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.619957] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.622583] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.625451] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.630321] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.635825] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.641086] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.643692] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.646561] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.651182] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.656693] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.663210] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.666211] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.669467] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.674717] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.680444] snd_firewire_speakers fw2.0: iPCR0: plug is already in use
[  106.687340]

Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz


when i play my favorite youtube player with mpv i get


libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate





On 03.04.2017 18:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On 04/03/2017 06:16 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

Technically for a full bug report we would want:

/usr/share/bug/xorg/script 3>/tmp/script.log


Oh, yeah, completely forgot about that one ;-). Even better!

Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz


"script.log"

see attachment please

thanks

On 03.04.2017 18:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On 04/03/2017 06:16 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

Technically for a full bug report we would want:

/usr/share/bug/xorg/script 3>/tmp/script.log


Oh, yeah, completely forgot about that one ;-). Even better!

#!/bin/sh

PATH="/sbin:$PATH"
CONFIG_DIR=/etc/X11
SERVER_BINARY=/usr/bin/Xorg
SERVER_SYMLINK="$CONFIG_DIR/X"
XORGCONFIG="$CONFIG_DIR/xorg.conf"
XORGCONFIG_DIR="$CONFIG_DIR/xorg.conf.d"
CONFIG_AUX_DIR=/var/lib/x11
X11R6_LIBS=/usr/X11R6/lib
LOCAL_LIBS=/usr/local/lib

# Pretty echo, underline the specified string:
pecho() {
echo "$@"
echo "$@"|sed 's/./-/g'
}

exec >&3

if [ -e "$SERVER_SYMLINK" ]; then
pecho "X server symlink status:"
ls -dl "$SERVER_SYMLINK"
ls -dl "$(readlink "$SERVER_SYMLINK")"
else
echo "$SERVER_SYMLINK does not exist."
fi

if ! [ -L "$SERVER_SYMLINK" ]; then
echo "$SERVER_SYMLINK is not a symlink."
fi

if ! [ -x "$SERVER_SYMLINK" ]; then
echo "$SERVER_SYMLINK is not executable."
fi

echo

if ldd "$SERVER_BINARY" | grep -qs "$LOCAL_LIBS"; then
   pecho "The server is using local libraries!"
   ldd "$SERVER_BINARY" | grep "$LOCAL_LIBS"
   echo
fi

if ldd "$SERVER_BINARY" | grep -qs "$X11R6_LIBS"; then
   pecho "The server is using obsolete libraries!"
   ldd "$SERVER_BINARY" | grep "$X11R6_LIBS"
   echo
fi

if dpkg-divert --list | grep -qs -i libgl; then
pecho "Diversions concerning libGL are in place"
dpkg-divert --list | grep -i libgl
echo
fi

if which lspci > /dev/null 2>&1; then
pecho "VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:"
LC_ALL=C lspci -nn | grep 'VGA compatible controller'
else
echo "The lspci command was not found; not including PCI data."
fi

echo

if [ -e "$XORGCONFIG" ]; then
pecho "Xorg X server configuration file status:"
ls -dl "$XORGCONFIG"
echo
pecho "Contents of $XORGCONFIG:"
iconv -c -t ascii "$XORGCONFIG"
else
echo "$XORGCONFIG does not exist."
fi

echo

if [ -d "$XORGCONFIG_DIR" ]; then
pecho "Contents of $XORGCONFIG_DIR:"
ls -l "$XORGCONFIG_DIR"
else
echo "$XORGCONFIG_DIR does not exist."
fi

echo

KMS_CONFS_DIR=/etc/modprobe.d
KMS_CONFS=$(ls $KMS_CONFS_DIR/*-kms.conf 2>/dev/null)

if [ -n "$KMS_CONFS" ]; then
pecho "KMS configuration files:"
for CONF in $KMS_CONFS; do
  echo "$CONF:"
  # Indent, and get rid of empty lines:
  sed 's/^/  /' < "$CONF"|egrep -v '^\s*$'
done
else
echo "$KMS_CONFS_DIR contains no KMS configuration files."
fi

echo

KERNEL_VERSION=/proc/version

if [ -e "$KERNEL_VERSION" ]; then
pecho "Kernel version ($KERNEL_VERSION):"
cat /proc/version
else
echo "No kernel version found (missing $KERNEL_VERSION)."
fi

echo

XORG_LOGS=$(ls -dt /var/log/Xorg.*.log 2>/dev/null)

if [ -n "$XORG_LOGS" ]; then
pecho "Xorg X server log files on system:"
ls -dlrt /var/log/Xorg.*.log 2>/dev/null
echo
for LOG in $XORG_LOGS; do
if [ -f "$LOG" ]; then
pecho "Contents of most recent Xorg X server log file ($LOG):"
cat "$LOG"
# the log files are large; only show the most recent
break
fi
done
else
echo "No Xorg X server log files found."
fi

echo

if [ -x /sbin/udevadm ]; then
pecho "udev information:"
/sbin/udevadm info --export-db | awk -F '\n' -v RS='\n\n' '/E: ID_INPUT/ { print; print "" }'
echo
fi

if [ -x /bin/dmesg ]; then
pecho "DRM Information from dmesg:"
dmesg | egrep -i 'drm|agp'
echo
fi

# vim:set ai et sts=4 sw=4 tw=0:

Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz

also the system recognizes 2 monitors although i have only one attached 
- a samsung 19inch 5:4

that is being scaled down to a 4:3 due to "mirroring" the two displays.

On 03.04.2017 18:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

On 04/03/2017 06:16 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

Technically for a full bug report we would want:

/usr/share/bug/xorg/script 3>/tmp/script.log


Oh, yeah, completely forgot about that one ;-). Even better!

Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Kuenz


maybe this is of help?


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/570228



On 03.04.2017 19:11, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:

"script.log"

see attachment please


uh ?

You really need to see this in your terminal:

$ /usr/share/bug/xorg/script 3>/tmp/script.log

Aw: Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

2017-04-04 Thread Richard Kuenz

thank you ,

i tried several options

append="quiet splash radeon.agpmode=-1"

append="quiet splash video=radeonfb:off radeon.agpmode=-1"

but still software rasterizer

tried also to fresh install jessie, but did not behave.

any other suggestions?

Gesendet: Dienstag, 04. April 2017 um 11:00 Uhr
Von: "Mathieu Malaterre" 
An: "Richard Kuenz" 
Cc: "PowerPC List Debian" 
Betreff: Re: Radeon Graphics Acceleration for Debian wheezy / Hwoto?

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:
> sorry
>
> there you go

Ok:

[ 24.327] (EE) AIGLX error: r300 does not export required DRI extension
[ 24.328] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

I can't remember from the top of my head, but I would try the famous
radeon.agpmode=-1 trick in yaboot.

Re: ibook G3 suddenly fails to resume after suspend with Debian wheezy

2017-05-05 Thread Richard Kuenz


hello ,

mr. elimar wrote back here but i cannot find the post anymore

i just installed debian jessie on powerbook g4 1,67 and with help of 
these mate.debs here

http://ppcluddite.blogspot.it/2012/03/installing-debian-linux-on-ppc-part-iv.html

got nice 3d acelleration with the radeon chip.


problem is the laptop won't come out of suspend if i close the lid on 
the powerbook.


pbbuttonsd is installed.



thank you very much,


richard



ps. another question: is radeon x800xt supported on powermac g5 (agp)?



Am 25.08.15, 03:00, schrieb Juergen Hench:

Dear Debian-for-PPC developers and users

I am using an old 2003 G3 ibook with debian wheezy (3.2.0-4-powerpc #1
Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u3 ppc GNU/Linux), initially installed as linux
mint. It had all been working fine until yesterday when the
resume-from-suspend stopped working. I have performed an upgrade to the
current version of all installed packages. I have been using lxde and
xfce4 on the system.

There was one "anomaly" when waking up from suspend since Debian had
been installed. When closing the lid, the computer would go to suspend.
When re-opening, it would wake up for a few seconds, then go back to
suspend without user interaction. Pressing a keyboard key would then
wake it up again, and it would function fine.

Now, since the upgrade (did not note the versions I had been using
before) the system goes to suspend. When re-opening, it does power up
the screen backlight, and the caps lock key as well as num lock key LEDs
work, however, nothing else starts up, and there is no network
connection either. Thus, it is impossible to see what exactly fails. All
the remains is to turn off the power and to reboot.

I wonder if there has been any change to packages that could explain
this behavior. I have found several old posts about older Debian
versions with similar "symptoms" and have tried to exchange pbbuttonsd
for pmud. It all remains the same. No waking up from suspend anymore.

Does anyone have an ibook / powerbook G3 with the current Debian wheezy
running and suspend still works? Which packages are installed? I would
be grateful for a list. Are there any customizations needed? I do not
recall that I had to adapt any file after the installation for
suspend/resume to work. Unfortunately, now, when trying to find the
problem, I have added and removed quite some packages and the whole
thing seems to boil down do the kernel rather than the ppbuttonsd etc.
level.

Has anyone else with an ibook / pb G3 experience the same problem recently?

Any idea is appreciated

Best

Juergen

Re: Problems installing Jessie to Powerbook from USB Stick

2017-05-17 Thread Richard Kuenz


This helped me when i needed to boot usb

http://mintppc.org/content/installation-mintppc-92

On 17.05.2017 20:29, Carlos wrote:

Hello to all,

first of, great community. This is my first post but I have read a lot of 
threads on this mailing list. And I’m a totally noob on Linux.

I would like to install Debian from a USB-Stick, but sadly it fails.

First off, my system requirements:

Apple PowerBook G4 1.5GHz
Model Identifier: PowerBook6,8 (February 2005)
Model Number: A1104
Boot-ROM Version: 4.9.0f0
OS: MacOS X v10.4.11


These steps I have done so far:

1. Downloaded Debian 8.8.0 non-free Firmware edition from here: 
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.8.0+nonfree/powerpc/iso-cd/
2. I copied the ISO to USB-Stick with this command:
sudo dd if=/Users/test/Downloads/firmware-8.8.0-powerpc-netinst.iso 
of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m

After I performed this command, I got:
308+1 records in
308+1 records out
323665920 bytes transferred in 27.002575 secs (11986484 bytes/sec)

And the stick appears in the Finder called „Debian/PowerPC_jessie (with lot of 
folders, e. g. install/yaboot)

The USB-Stick is shown in the disk utility as follows:
File system: MacOS standard (disk1s2)
Partition type: Apple_HFS (Apple partition scheme)

3. Booting the PowerBook in OpenFirmware
4. typed dev / ls and devalias

As described there: 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2012/08/msg00042.html

But I don’t find the USB-Stick. I also tried this command: „boot ud:,\\:tbxi“ 
as described there: 
http://ben-collins.blogspot.de/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html

But only it appears a no stopping sign.  I also have tried a different Stick. 
The first one with 2GB, the second with 8GB.

Could maybe someone give me a advice, please?

Thanks in advance
Carlos

Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again

2017-05-18 Thread Richard Kuenz


Fadi,


i tried Jessie on a Powerbook G4 15' (radeon) 1,67 and i could achieve 
easy installation and also 3D accelleration with the help of this 
section here

http://ppcluddite.blogspot.it/2012/03/installing-debian-linux-on-ppc-part-iv.html
Did not update to Sid , though.
Why, if ever, should one do that, at this point?
But i rememeber, on my Imac G5, Sid would work, but some things started 
to become, strange and i reverted then. Could not remember though if it 
was the Imac g5 with Nvidia or the Radeon G5 one.


Cheers,
Richard

On 19.05.2017 07:59, Fadi Osman wrote:

Hello Carlos,

about booting on USB stick , I have tried installing sid (unstable) on 
PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15' (radeon) and it works (somehow...).
(maybe it is the way you've written the ISO to USB drive...)

Here are the notes about the installation:
http://wiki.powerprogress.org/DebianPowerPcStartersManual#Installation_of_Debian_powerpc

Unfortunately - I think I'm having the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH issue (with 
radeon).

Funny thing though, everything works just after the installation - but booting 
the next day gets me into the black screen of death.

I'm doing the installation again this week-end, and I'll keep the logs for a 
successful xserver start to compare them with the logs for unsuccessful start.

Good luck,
Fadi.


En date de : Jeu 18.5.17, Carlos  a écrit :

 Objet: Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again
 À: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
 Date: Jeudi 18 mai 2017, 16h52

 Hello guys,

 now I have copied the ISO to a Firewire
 drive.

 First I got an error
 during installation.
 Then I typed
 „install32 video=ofonly“

 This worked :-)
 But now I’m
 hanging at „Detect and mount CD-ROM“ in the main menu of
 the installer.
 The installer said, no CD-ROM
 drive found. Now he forces me to define the directory of the
 driver. But I don’t know this.

 A also can’t open the shell. Alt+F2 don’t
 work.

 Any advise,
 please

Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again

2017-05-18 Thread Richard Kuenz


One thing i noted yesterday on my Imac G5 with Jessie,
i could not get DVD to play properly.

have installed libdvdcss2 from the deb-multimedia archive,

but VLC would play, but black screen, audio, no picture.
Gnome-Mplayer , would show video screen, but then come up with an error.
Kodi would not play the disc at all.


Any recommendations?

Thanks

On 19.05.2017 07:59, Fadi Osman wrote:

Hello Carlos,

about booting on USB stick , I have tried installing sid (unstable) on 
PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15' (radeon) and it works (somehow...).
(maybe it is the way you've written the ISO to USB drive...)

Here are the notes about the installation:
http://wiki.powerprogress.org/DebianPowerPcStartersManual#Installation_of_Debian_powerpc

Unfortunately - I think I'm having the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH issue (with 
radeon).

Funny thing though, everything works just after the installation - but booting 
the next day gets me into the black screen of death.

I'm doing the installation again this week-end, and I'll keep the logs for a 
successful xserver start to compare them with the logs for unsuccessful start.

Good luck,
Fadi.


En date de : Jeu 18.5.17, Carlos  a écrit :

 Objet: Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again
 À: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
 Date: Jeudi 18 mai 2017, 16h52

 Hello guys,

 now I have copied the ISO to a Firewire
 drive.

 First I got an error
 during installation.
 Then I typed
 „install32 video=ofonly“

 This worked :-)
 But now I’m
 hanging at „Detect and mount CD-ROM“ in the main menu of
 the installer.
 The installer said, no CD-ROM
 drive found. Now he forces me to define the directory of the
 driver. But I don’t know this.

 A also can’t open the shell. Alt+F2 don’t
 work.

 Any advise,
 please

Re: First time Debian stretch (Linux) installation ever - a conclusion

2017-05-21 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hei Carlos, guys, Fadi, all,

super that you installed so well + made lot of experience.
i think you can install synapse as dock, or docky , if available;
for sound , probably you would need to blacklist (eg. outcommenting)
all lines in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local.conf
and snd-powermac if it is still in /etc/modules

me too made some experience today on powerbook g4 with radeon graphics
went from debian squeeze (no 3d ) to stretch - a bit too big of an upgrade
went from lubuntu precise (no 3d aceeleration, no sound, pretty stable)
to  lubuntu trusty tahr (no 3d, no sound, had to pass Linux 
video=radeonfb:1024x768-32 at yaboot to get to desktop)
to lubuntu xenial aka stretch? (3d available, no sound > cleared with 
the solution above, but the dimming plays crazy, so after some time the 
computer would totally dim down ; my keyboard layout is german mac 
nodeadkeys, so probably with another layout the keys might work and the 
dimming would not occur? --


for making the @sign for email etc. i had to pass this option for german 
keyboard


1.create file inside userdirectory

~/.Xmodmap

2. pass this into the file

clear Mod4
keycode 134 = ISO_Level3_Shift
add Mod4 = Super_L

3. activate ~/.Xmodmap by typing

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

4. this would remap the Right Command key (apple key) to act as AltGr

The "@" is on the "G" key. Under OSX, we print it using ALT+g

actually then Right AppleKey + G would finally bring "@"


I am not fully satisfied with result from Lubuntu so i will try with 
Debian anew, possibly.



Cheers,
Richard


Am 21.05.17 19:24, schrieb Carlos:

Hello guys,

I installed Debian stretch successfully.

Now I have a couple of question.

To install Debian wasn't a problem. First I tried to install it from a USB key. 
Don't work. I think it’s a OpenFirmware issue, because in OF, the key wasn't 
shown.

At startup, I always have to press RETURN to start booting.
What have I got to do, to boot in Linux automatically?

I installed Debain three times with three different desktop environments:
1. Xfce
2. LXDE
3. MATE

On Xfce
+ A dock is available out of the box
+ You can search all applications
- trackpad movment is stuttering like hell (e. g. if you are holding alt on MacOS 
X bootup to select startup volume -> if you there trying to use the trackpad, 
it feels exactly the same)
- A clock & date system preference isn't available

On LXDE
+ clock & date system preference is available
+ trackpad movment is a little bit better as under Xfce
- a dock isn't available
- you can't search all applications

On MATE:
+ clock & date system preference is available
- a dock isn't available
- you can't search all applications
- trackpad movement is hyper-sensitive, very nervous

I have set the CPU to power-saving. Because yesterday the fan was on full 
speed, then the PowerBook shuts down. Then I have installed pSensor to look at 
the temperatures. But it seems there is only a sensor for the HDD? Funny thing, 
today the HDD sensor is gone, not shown ...

It's a pleasrue to use Synaptic. And it also wasn't a problem to install the 
wireless driver. But instead of vi, I have used gedit. Because it's easier to 
use for me. And about the PowerPC Wiki from Fadi. I haven't copied the lines, I 
only put contrib behind main.

The brightness keys for the display don't work. Sound also not working.
Any ideas how to fix this?

Wake up from sleep also don’t work.

There should also be a mate-cpufreq-applet to switch between the different CPU 
settings.
Any ideas where I could find this applet?

And on MATE, on the top right, the clock, there is also a temperature symbol.
Is it possible to add more cities? Because my city isn't in that list.

Is it possible to install different desktop environments?
If yes, how to switch between the different environments then?

About searching for applications:
At the moment I pick a MacApp and search on http://alternativeto.net/ for an 
alternative.
Is there a better way to search for applications?

On Evolution to configure mail: At the moment it’s not going to work … I don’t 
know why.

Thanks in advance
Carlos

Re: First time Debian unstable "sid" (Linux) installation ever - a conclusion

2017-05-27 Thread Richard Kuenz


ok,
i found a dvd here labeled "pppc64-el stretch (powerpc)" sure  i must  
have made some error


labeling
but on imac g5

i cannot boot this as i am used to by typing in open firwmare

boot cd:,(backslash)install(backslash)yaboot

Am 25.05.2017 um 19:05 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:


On 05/25/2017 06:37 PM, Fadi Osman wrote:

I suppose you're both talking about sid - and not stretch...


There is no Debian Stretch for powerpc (anymore). It's limited
to Debian sid (unstable) now for the foreseeable future.

Adrian

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Problems with Fan - full Speed - Debian Wheezy Powermac G5

2017-07-04 Thread Richard Kuenz

Hello ,

i have installed Debian Wheezy on a Powermac G5 Quad.
Unfortunately the Fans do Full Spin quite all the time.

Could someone please indicate me a solution?

Fan/Thermal Control

This problem is solved in the latest builds of Debian Etch and will be
sorted by the time Debian 4.0 is released.

Fans will rev to full speed without proper control. This isn't dangerous
to your system - but it sure is annoying! In the meantime,the fan issue
is solved simply through loading up the correct fan modules and forcing
them to load on startup every time. In the terminal:

{{{sudo -s apt-get install powernowd cd /lib/modules/$(uname
-r)/kernel/drivers/macintosh (ls | cut -d. -f1 | xargs -n1 modprobe)
2>/dev/null lsmod | cut -d" " -f1 | grep windfarm >> /etc/modules exit}}}

Done! Fans should slow down immediately and these modules will now load
automatically for you every time you start up your system

Thank you very much,

Richard

On 18.06.2017 00:32, Matti Palmström wrote:

> This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately. ppc64el
is a new
ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware.

Ooh... I guess was confused because
https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/#ppc64el says "Here you can find
information about the 64-bit PowerPC Little Endian architecture" and
links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64 which made it look like
PowerPC 970* was little endian too.

Thanks for the help, now I have the installer going.

Regards
/M

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>> wrote:

Hi Matti!

On 06/17/2017 11:54 PM, Matti Palmström wrote:
> I have an iMac G5 iSight with a 64-bit PowerPC 970fx that I try to
install Stretch to. I have
> downloaded debian-stretch-DI-rc5-ppc64el-netinst.iso and burned it to a
cd and dd'ed it to a usb stick.

This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately.
ppc64el is a new
ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware.

Luckily, there is still a way to install Debian on your machine. You
can download
a CD image for Debian sid by following the link below:

http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/*zip*/workspace.zip

Unzipping this file should give you an ISO image which you can burn
to a CD and use
to install your G5 with Debian for powerpc. This will give you a
64-bit kernel (ppc64)
and a 32-bit userland (powerpc).

We will be providing full 64-bit ppc64 installation media in the
future which will
have both a 64-bit kernel and a 64-bit userland but work on that
hasn't finished
yet, unfortunately.

Cheers,
Adrian

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Re: Problems with Fan - full Speed - Debian Wheezy Powermac G5

2017-07-04 Thread Richard Kuenz

I am sorry, the post was not complete,

wanted to say that i tried the command that i took of the Debian
homepage, but unfortunately cannot execute it due to syntax error.

Could someone please show me solution?

Do i just need to "modprobe windfarm" and add it to /etc/modules?

Thank you very much for all your help,

very appreciated.

Richard

On 04.07.2017 22:24, Richard Kuenz wrote:

Hello ,

i have installed Debian Wheezy on a Powermac G5 Quad.
Unfortunately the Fans do Full Spin quite all the time.

Could someone please indicate me a solution?

Fan/Thermal Control

This problem is solved in the latest builds of Debian Etch and will be
sorted by the time Debian 4.0 is released.

Done! Fans should slow down immediately and these modules will now load
automatically for you every time you start up your system

Thank you very much,

Richard

On 18.06.2017 00:32, Matti Palmström wrote:

> This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately. ppc64el
is a new
ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware.

Thanks for the help, now I have the installer going.

Regards
/M

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>>
wrote:

Hi Matti!

On 06/17/2017 11:54 PM, Matti Palmström wrote:
> I have an iMac G5 iSight with a 64-bit PowerPC 970fx that I try
to install Stretch to. I have
> downloaded debian-stretch-DI-rc5-ppc64el-netinst.iso and burned
it to a cd and dd'ed it to a usb stick.

This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately.
ppc64el is a new
ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware.

Luckily, there is still a way to install Debian on your machine. You
can download
a CD image for Debian sid by following the link below:

http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/*zip*/workspace.zip

<http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/*zip*/workspace.zip>

We will be providing full 64-bit ppc64 installation media in the
future which will
have both a 64-bit kernel and a 64-bit userland but work on that
hasn't finished
yet, unfortunately.

Cheers,
Adrian

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<mailto:glaub...@debian.org>
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Re: Talos™ II Secure Workstation Pre-Order

2017-08-08 Thread Richard Kuenz

Hei

I am also hoping to buy one of those.
In the meantime i am trying to find out how to add a printer in Debian Jessie 
for Powerpc. Could someone help me please?
.

Thanks

Richie

Von meinem iPad gesendet

> Am 08.08.2017 um 14:58 schrieb Carlos :
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> the new Talos II is available for pre-order. I think, it’s a really sweet 
> price.
> Mainboard + CPU for 2300€
> 
> https://secure.raptorcs.com
> 
> ATM I’m using a Powerbook 12“ 1.5GHz and also still waiting for the GNU/Linux 
> PowerPC notebook.
> 
> But I think, the Talos could be my next computer :-)
> Carlos

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

2017-10-04 Thread Richard Kuenz


Just one sidenote,

please forgive me but i am no expert and did not read all your messages,


i have one computer with intel i7 2600 and one ssd in it
it had windows installed;
it was very difficult to install on the same harddrive debian (on a 
separate partition , of course) and get GRUB recognized at startup.

Probably because it is UEFI only with newer Firmware, i think.
Now i have Grub Menu with Dual-Boot Debian Wheezy (Grub) and Windows 
(UEFI Loader), but very often , randomly , it would not recognize GRUB 
Menu at Startup, and need to Shutdown, and Re-Start. Sometimes GRUB is 
only recognized after a few startups;
Maybe i have messed up the Installation, i don't know, but it is on SSD 
+ UEFI, and took me some time, and yet it is not stable.



With Yaboot, i did not have such problem when installing on HDD (not 
SSD) Macintosh OSX and later on the same drive Debian.

Also, after installation, the booting was rock-solid;
Only problem arose, when upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie when Wheezy was 
on a seprate disk, then it somehow messed up the Harddisk entries, and 
the Debian became unbootable, unless one would manually recreate the 
proper Harddisk links.


I hope that Yaboot can still be used in the future as it seems very good 
functioning after all.



Sorry again for my intrusion,


All the best (with Computing),

Richard

Am 04.10.17 um 10:50 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

On 10/02/2017 05:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
As a follow-up to [1] but maybe better placed under the subject of 
this thread,
the promised details for the Grub installation on an Xserve G4 with 
Debian Sid.


Thanks. Is there any specify reason why you aren't using grub-install?

If I remember correctly, most of the steps you went through above should
actually be performed by single invocation of grub-install which is what
debian-installer is doing as well.

Adrian

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.

2017-10-06 Thread Richard Kuenz


Question:

if i install Wheezy on Powermac G4,
can i then update to Stretch?
Or do i need to install Stretch from Netinstall to succeed?
Where could i download such image?


Thank you


Am 06.10.2017 um 11:40 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

On 10/06/2017 11:17 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Ah, the problem is most likely the debian/isinstallable script in 
grub-installer [1]. It's
already checking for the existence of the /boot/grub HFS partition 
when the grub-installer

package is pulled in by anna (debian-installer's version of APT).


I have already pushed an updated unofficial version of grub-installer 
and will
consequently build and upload an updated installer image later today for 
you

to test.

Adrian

Re: PowerPC sid installation - was: Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy

2017-10-06 Thread Richard Kuenz


Thank you very much for supporting ,

i downloaded the NETINST,


but how can i boot?

i am used to go into OPEN FIRMWARE

at start by pressing ALT+CMD+O+F
there i type

boot cd:,\install\yaboot


supose that with NETINST the procedure is different?



Am 06.10.2017 um 11:54 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

Hi Richard!

Please don't hijack discussions but open a new thread for that. Otherwise
the discussion becomes hard to follow in the mailing list archives.


if i install Wheezy on Powermac G4,
can i then update to Stretch?


You can update it to Sid. There is no Stretch for PowerPC.

To upgrade, just replace "wheezy" with "sid" in your /etc/apt/sources.list.


Or do i need to install Stretch from Netinstall to succeed?


No.


Where could i download such image?


Download "all files in zip" [1]. The ISO is contained in the ZIP file.

[1] 
http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/

Fwd: Re: PowerPC sid installation - was: Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy

2017-10-06 Thread Richard Kuenz





 Weitergeleitete Nachricht 
Betreff: Re: PowerPC sid installation - was: Re: New discussion: ppc64 
installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy

Datum: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 17:56:07 +0200
Von: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
An: Richard Kuenz 

Please re-send your email with the mailing list in CC.

Thanks

On 10/06/2017 05:54 PM, Richard Kuenz wrote:

Hello Adrian

thank you very much,


i tried several images til now,
and it sseems that the Powermac G4 CD-Drive is a bit old or that the 
Verbatim-CD are too shallow, and not being recognized;


Your Unofficial Image was out of 4 the only one that being bootable with
"ALT" Key at the Boot-Up; because i used a differnt CD Media for it.

but i found out that the other ones were being unbootable because apparently 
the CD Quality of the Blank Media is somehow not fully compatible with  the CD 
Drive


So, i could install your NetInstaller Unofficial SID Image,
but it would not load Yaboot at the reboot as was expected;

The Partitioning went fine; but did i miss something - did i need to do expert 
install?


Thank you again,

Richard


Am 06.10.17 um 11:54 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

Hi Richard!

Please don't hijack discussions but open a new thread for that. Otherwise
the discussion becomes hard to follow in the mailing list archives.


if i install Wheezy on Powermac G4,
can i then update to Stretch?


You can update it to Sid. There is no Stretch for PowerPC.

To upgrade, just replace "wheezy" with "sid" in your /etc/apt/sources.list.


Or do i need to install Stretch from Netinstall to succeed?


No.


Where could i download such image?


Download "all files in zip" [1]. The ISO is contained in the ZIP file.


[1]
http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/





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Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-06 Thread Richard Kuenz


Dear Rick,

thank you , but i cannot help myself thinking that booting from CD or 
NETINST is more diffiult than from DVD;
i had multiple times installed on G5 mac or g4 powerbook from a DVD 
alongside a Mac OS installation with no problem;


this powermac g4 has only CD Drive, and booting from external Firewire 
DVD seems very difficult,


so i downloaded several images, both NETINST (Wheezy, Jessie , SID) and 
CD Images;

after sorting out the problem with CD Media of low quality,
i finally could boot Adrian-s effort SidImage and it installed, with 
Automatic Partition on one Harddrive, alsonside Tiger,


but at Reboot, it would not recognized Yaboot;
then i installed Wheezy 7.11 from CD Image (CD1) and let the installer 
update the rest;

again it would not boot after succeusful installation

same with Netinst;

so i presume, i made an error with the automatic partitioning;
i don't know, there are 2 HFS partitions, one with OS , one blank,
and a 3 section for Linux debian;

Now i am trying Squeeze, maybe better luck with that;



Am 06.10.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Rick Thomas:

Hi Richard,

Don’t be confused by the name NETINST.  It means that, in order to keep the 
.iso image as small as possible, the installer is prepared to get most of its 
Debian packages from the repository mirrors on the network.

You still do it the normal way — burn the .iso image to a CD and boot the CD in 
whatever way you are familiar with.  There will be a question or two during the 
install process about which repository mirror you want to access, but it’s 
otherwise normal.

Hope that helps!
Rick

On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:44 AM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:


Thank you very much for supporting ,

i downloaded the NETINST,


but how can i boot?

i am used to go into OPEN FIRMWARE

at start by pressing ALT+CMD+O+F
there i type

boot cd:,\install\yaboot


supose that with NETINST the procedure is different?



Am 06.10.2017 um 11:54 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

Hi Richard!
Please don't hijack discussions but open a new thread for that. Otherwise
the discussion becomes hard to follow in the mailing list archives.

if i install Wheezy on Powermac G4,
can i then update to Stretch?

You can update it to Sid. There is no Stretch for PowerPC.
To upgrade, just replace "wheezy" with "sid" in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

Or do i need to install Stretch from Netinstall to succeed?

No.

Where could i download such image?

Download "all files in zip" [1]. The ISO is contained in the ZIP file.

[1] http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-06 Thread Richard Kuenz


Also, when installing Squeeze,
it seems that the Package Archive is not accessible.

Following this page here

https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive


it should be able during installation to add manually a Server for 
downloading the packages;



But when i enter manually


Http://debian.archive.org/


it would come up with an error;


where did i go wrong?




Am 06.10.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Rick Thomas:

Hi Richard,

Don’t be confused by the name NETINST.  It means that, in order to keep the 
.iso image as small as possible, the installer is prepared to get most of its 
Debian packages from the repository mirrors on the network.

You still do it the normal way — burn the .iso image to a CD and boot the CD in 
whatever way you are familiar with.  There will be a question or two during the 
install process about which repository mirror you want to access, but it’s 
otherwise normal.

Hope that helps!
Rick

On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:44 AM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:


Thank you very much for supporting ,

i downloaded the NETINST,


but how can i boot?

i am used to go into OPEN FIRMWARE

at start by pressing ALT+CMD+O+F
there i type

boot cd:,\install\yaboot


supose that with NETINST the procedure is different?



Am 06.10.2017 um 11:54 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

Hi Richard!
Please don't hijack discussions but open a new thread for that. Otherwise
the discussion becomes hard to follow in the mailing list archives.

if i install Wheezy on Powermac G4,
can i then update to Stretch?

You can update it to Sid. There is no Stretch for PowerPC.
To upgrade, just replace "wheezy" with "sid" in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

Or do i need to install Stretch from Netinstall to succeed?

No.

Where could i download such image?

Download "all files in zip" [1]. The ISO is contained in the ZIP file.

[1] http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-12 Thread Richard Kuenz


Thank you ver much Rick,

this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4.


Instead of Automatic Partitioning i had to choose Manual Partitioning,

and where i was used to manually Partition the likes of

1 MB NewWorldBoot
eg 80 GB / root Ext3/4 DebianRootDrive
4,5 GB Swap

i had to insert one partition like

100 MB ext2 /boot (with bootflag YES Enabled!)


then the yaboot installer would be happy after installation and things 
would work decently fine.




Am 07.10.17 um 23:31 schrieb Rick Thomas:

Right…

So what you need to do is this:

When the partitioner is done creating the setup you describe and asks if you 
want to write that partition scheme to disk, you have a chance to do some 
manual partitioning before continuing.  Tell it to delete the ext4 root 
partition.  Then choose the resulting free space and create an ext2 partition 
of size 500 MB or so.  Make sure it is marked as bootable and mounted at /boot. 
 This will leave you with 178GB or so of free space, which you can use to 
re-create the ext4 / root partition.

You can write that partitioning scheme to disk and allow the rest of the 
installation to proceed.

When you reboot after the installation, yaboot will see the ext2 /boot 
partition and be able to read vmlinux and initrd from it.

Hope that helps!
Rick

PS: In case it helps, here’s what goes into which partitions:

1MB new world boot — contains the yaboot binary and a copy of yaboot.conf
500MB /boot “bootable” ext2 — contains vmlinux and initrd that will be read 
into RAM by yaboot.
178GB / root debian ext4 — contains your root filesystem.
1.5GB Swap — will be used as swap space by your running Debain Linux system.


On Oct 7, 2017, at 6:17 AM, richard.kuenz  wrote:


Hello, rick

I do automatic partitining on free space
It gives about

1MB newworld boot
179GB / root debian ext4
1.5GB Swap

But yaboot fails afterards with


Input/output error or even refuses to install



Von Samsung-Tablet gesendet


 Ursprüngliche Nachricht 
Von: Rick Thomas 
Datum: 07.10.2017 11:38 (GMT+01:00)
An: "richard.kuenz" 
Cc: Frank Scheiner , PowerPC List Debian 

Betreff: Re: PowerPC sid installation


On Oct 7, 2017, at 2:03 AM, richard.kuenz  wrote:


I am getting this error now with squeeze after yesterday installation succeeded 
after some hiccups

 . . .

<20171007_110203_resized.jpg>


When you installed, did you create an ext2 partition for /boot?  If I’m 
understanding the error message in your screenshot correctly it looks like you 
took the default partition setup.  Unfortunately, that setup puts the linux 
kernel and initrd in the root partition, which is ext4.

Yaboot has trouble with some newer features of ext4 partitions.  For a while 
those new features were disabled on powerpc machines as a temporary workaround 
for this problem.  But it looks like that disablement is not in the installer 
you are using.

My solution to that is to choose the “with LVM” partitioning scheme.   This 
creates a small ext2 partition to be mounted on /boot and points yaboot at it 
rather than at the root ext4 partition. This /boot partition holds the vmlinux 
and initrd stuff.  If you don’t like LVM, you can choose manual partitioning 
and set it up any way you want as long as you put the kernel and initrd in an 
ext2 partition.


Hope that helps!
Rick

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-12 Thread Richard Kuenz


Ah sorry, i actually installed Wheezy,

and it still was too slow for my needs -
i might upgrade RAM to 2 GB and see if this helps.

Would like to use Squeeze - but Debian got rid "cleared" of Iceape and 
therefore at the moment Wheezy / Jessie seems better for browsing 
especially if one likes to consume occasioally yYoutube content or so 
,albeit slow.



Am 12.10.17 um 10:33 schrieb Rick Thomas:



On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:06 AM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:

Thank you ver much Rick,

this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4.


You’re welcome.  Glad I could help!

Rick

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-12 Thread Richard Kuenz

But this "Yaboot Magic" with additional partition ext2 /boot (bootable 
Flat) was also needed when installing


Squeeze or Wheezy , at least so it seemed here.


Automatic Partitioning would install,
but yaboot would complain I/O Error at booting sequence.

Am 12.10.17 um 10:38 schrieb Richard Kuenz:

Ah sorry, i actually installed Wheezy,

and it still was too slow for my needs -
i might upgrade RAM to 2 GB and see if this helps.

Would like to use Squeeze - but Debian got rid "cleared" of Iceape and 
therefore at the moment Wheezy / Jessie seems better for browsing 
especially if one likes to consume occasioally yYoutube content or so 
,albeit slow.



Am 12.10.17 um 10:33 schrieb Rick Thomas:



On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:06 AM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:

Thank you ver much Rick,

this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4.


You’re welcome.  Glad I could help!

Rick

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-12 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello Rick,

yes ,


thank you ,

i have also powerbook g4 1,67 (limited to 1 GB due to some strange Bug) 
and Powermac G5 (currently with 6 GB Ram, DualProcessor - Quadcore)


On the Powermac G5 Wheezy runs exceptionally well, quick , stable , only 
the fans are really loud - and i have not found way yet to circumvent this.
Jessie is already quite slower on it , and needed special kernel to run 
it - maybe this problem is now solved.


In novebmer i might get another G5 with Nvidia Graphics so i am happy to 
learn more about Linux on Powerpc.


Great experience so far with Debian - still like it - although i find it 
silly peeps pushing for so fast upgrades all the time - but hey, maybe i 
am the silly one - relying on older hardware?


Cheers + happy day.

richard

Am 12.10.17 um 11:50 schrieb Rick Thomas:

Hi Richard.

You definitely need to install more RAM if you plan to use the machine for web 
browsing and other GUI-based tasks.  2GB would be just about minimum for a 
modern OS like Wheezy or Jessie.  Even with that, I’d make sure to specify a 
lightweight desktop, like Mate or Xfce.

Given that you’re planning to upgrade RAM, you should probably consider 
updating the OS to Jessie — just so you’re getting the latest security updates. 
 Wheezy, being older, is lower on the priority list for getting needed security 
patches.

I seem to remember that you have a G4 PowerBook and a G5 PowerMac (big aluminum 
case with lots of holes for airflow) and the PowerMac only has 512MB RAM.

If we’re talking about the G4 PowerBook, then Jessie will be just fine, as long 
as you have enough RAM.

If we’re talking about the G5 PowerMac, my experience is that you need a 
specially patched kernel to use it with a graphical user interface — adding RAM 
doesn’t help because the problem is that the Graphics card uses a feature of 
the G5 memory interface (“huge” pages) that the kernel doesn’t support (or vice 
versa, my memory is hazy).  As I said, I gave up and found non-graphical 
applications for my G5 Macs.

Hope this helps!
Rick

On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:38 AM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:


Ah sorry, i actually installed Wheezy,

and it still was too slow for my needs -
i might upgrade RAM to 2 GB and see if this helps.

Would like to use Squeeze - but Debian got rid "cleared" of Iceape and 
therefore at the moment Wheezy / Jessie seems better for browsing especially if one likes 
to consume occasioally yYoutube content or so ,albeit slow.


Am 12.10.17 um 10:33 schrieb Rick Thomas:

On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:06 AM, Richard Kuenz  wrote:

Thank you ver much Rick,

this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4.

You’re welcome.  Glad I could help!
Rick

Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

2017-10-26 Thread Richard Kuenz

Hello ,

I have one computer where the cd drive is faulty so id like to boot off firwire 
drvi externally. It is a powermac g5.

Does someone know how to do this?


Normally i boot into open firmware and type there

Boot cd:\install\yaboot

Von meinem iPad gesendet

Am 22.10.2017 um 07:05 schrieb Mark Balantzyan :

> It may also be worthwhile to consider (force-)booting from Optical Drive on 
> PMacs/ppc64 as selectable from the GRUB menu. The (former) Yaboot has this 
> option. Discs of a Linux-nature may or may not be detected from OF, I have 
> found.
> 
> It’s probably quite lofty already to consider FireWire and USB-booting from 
> the GRUB, but maybe optical/super-drive-booting as a minimum?
> 
> Thank you,
> MB
> 
> 
>> On Oct 21, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Mark Balantzyan  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> My bad, correction on my last reply-all:
>> 
>>> P.S. I understand that the new GRUB is likely not going to replace 
>>> OpenFirmware, so I am requesting just to be able to still boot from USB + 
>>> Firewire on the G5 Quad and USB on the G5 Dual 2.0 from the bootloader, and 
>>> not have to manually drill into OF to do that.
>> 
>> 
>> I meant still boot from USB + FW on the Quad and still boot from FireWire on 
>> the G5 Dual 2.0, not still boot from USB on the G5 Dual! Arr, so confusing. 
>> Sorry. Thanks.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 21, 2017, at 5:53 PM, Mark Balantzyan  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> Long time no…erm.
>>> 
>>> "We are actually working on making GRUB the default bootloader for Debian
>>> powerpc and ppc64. It is already the default bootloader when installing
>>> on PREP/CHRP PowerPC machines.
>>> 
>>> There is still some work to do for Apple NewWorld machines though but
>>> I am confident that this will be finished within the next few weeks.”
>>> 
>>> For added compatibility, I would please like to put forward that my 
>>> (NewWorld?) G5 PMacs, have not been designed to be able to boot from USB. 
>>> Firewire yes, but not USB. Most definitely one of them, that’s for sure. 
>>> Therefore, this may affect OpenFirmware awareness(es) required for 
>>> implementation in the new GRUB code. Namely, I would like to say please 
>>> implement whatever’s needed to allow say, a G5 Pmac Quad to still boot from 
>>> USB + Firewire, and a G5 Pmac Dual 2.0 to still boot from firewire from 
>>> both bootloader and OF (open firmware).
>>> 
>>> I would like to clarify that I haven’t tried any of the installer images 
>>> yet, so this is not a report of the project’s current functionality, but of 
>>> stuff as recent as a stuffed-up wheezy Jessie combo installation that I 
>>> still have (not under use).
>>> 
>>> P.S. I understand that the new GRUB is likely not going to replace 
>>> OpenFirmware, so I am requesting just to be able to still boot from USB + 
>>> Firewire on the G5 Quad and USB on the G5 Dual 2.0 from the bootloader, and 
>>> not have to manually drill into OF to do that.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark 
>>> 
>>> 
 On Oct 21, 2017, at 12:03 PM, John Ogness  wrote:
 
 On 2017-10-21, Tony Breeds  wrote:
>> This reverts commit f7a364631f2a8975ecca56668a19ee0a66c1ddcd.
>> 
>> An iBook G4 (PowerBook6,5) was unable to boot when linking to the
>> lower address. Revert back to 2MB.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: John Ogness 
>> ---
>> I could not find any references about _why_ yaboot was moved
>> from 2MB to 1MB. I did not bother to see how low I could get
>> it on my iBook. If 2MB is too high for some machine, I can
>> investigate to see how low I can go.
> 
> This was done as 'large' kernels couldn't be loaded as the RMA was too
> fragmented.  Moveing it down to 1MB reclaimed just enough that we were
> fine.
> 
> I assume that the yaboot-mainline and 1.3.17-4 tests we made with the
> same kernel/intrd combination.
 
 Yes. From Debian/sid, linux-image-4.13.0-1-powerpc version 4.13.4-2.
 
> Can you get me a dump of your RMA memory properties and sizes of the
> kernel and initrd?
 
 I'm not sure what you mean by "RMA memory properties" or how best to
 "dump" them. Here is some information retrieved from OpenFirmware...
 
 excerpt from 'printenv':
 real-mode? false
 real-base -1
 real-size -1
 load-base 0x80
 virt-base -1
 virt-size -1
 ram-size 0x3000
 
 excerpt from 'dev /memory' '.properties':
 available 3000 2fbed000
 
 The initrd.img is 18,543,719 bytes.
 The decompressed initrd.img is 48,723,456 bytes.
 The vmlinux is 11,868,000 bytes.
 
 John Ogness
 
 
>>> 
>> 
>

Re: ppc64 installer - make d-i/grub-installer work for NewWorld Power Macs

2017-11-02 Thread Richard Kuenz




Am 02.11.17 um 12:34 schrieb Rick Thomas:


On Nov 1, 2017, at 3:50 AM, Frank Scheiner  wrote:


@Rick:
I've also attached compressed versions of `grub-installer` and 
`debian/postinst` - the latter already renamed so it can be used as is in a 
Debian installation with Adrian's image from 2017-10-23 22:40h ([1]) after 
decompression.


Thanks, Frank!  I should be able to give it a thorough workout on Saturday or 
Sunday.

Let me know if there’s anything specific you’d like me to test — I’ll see if I 
can get a non-expert mode install to work and report on whether it asks for the 
HFS partition name.

Enjoy!
Rick





Hello ,

yesterday i tried a triple boot (osx , windows 7 , debian )on a 
newWorldMac (imac early 2009) with Intel CPU;


it worked quite well with Debian wheezy 64 bit , after installation i 
had to set "nomodeset" and afterwards install Nvidia-Driver (which is 
absent)


But when i would install Debian Jessie instead , afterwards, Grub would 
not boot .



Sorry for this intrusion, but it seems that the updates with Grub are 
not always consistent;
it happened to me also on Powermac , if i would install newer Version 
like Sid, after installing Yaboot, it would no more find Osx.

how to solve sound on powerbook g4/12''/debian jessie

2015-07-31 Thread richard kuenz


Hello ,

can someone please indicate me a solution on how to fix the sound on  
the powerbook g4 1,5 ghz 12'' by apple. sound worked only with debian  
squeeze here; neither with wheeezy, nor with jessie.


please help


thanks

ricci



Am 31.07.2015 um 17:21 schrieb Daniel Bast:


Hi,

xfsprogs 3.2.4 fails to build on ppc64el, see log below or full  
build log https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php? 
pkg=xfsprogs&arch=ppc64el&ver=3.2.4&stamp=1438318450

(xfsprogs 3.2.3 already failed with the same error)

What is the reason for this, libtool to old?


This potentially prevents the migration of the package to testing,  
which leaves CVE-2012-2150 open in testing on all arches.


Cheers,

Daniel


== dpkg-buildpackage: configure
test -f debian/rules
AUTOHEADER=/bin/true dh_autoreconf
	find ! -ipath "./debian/*" -a ! \( -path '*/.git/*' -o -path  
'*/.hg/*' -o -path '*/.bzr/*' -o -path '*/.svn/*' -o -path '*/CVS/ 
*' \) -a  -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > debian/autoreconf.before

autoreconf -f -i
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `.'.
libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
	find ! -ipath "./debian/*" -a ! \( -path '*/.git/*' -o -path  
'*/.hg/*' -o -path '*/.bzr/*' -o -path '*/.svn/*' -o -path '*/CVS/ 
*' \) -a  -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > debian/autoreconf.after
export DEBUG=-DNDEBUG DISTRIBUTION=debian INSTALL_USER=root  
INSTALL_GROUP=root LOCAL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--enable-readline=yes -- 
enable-blkid=yes" ; /usr/bin/make include/platform_defs.h

make[1]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
./configure $LOCAL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS
./config.guess: unable to guess system type

This script, last modified 2012-02-10, has failed to recognize
the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
download the most up to date version of the config scripts from

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/? 
p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD

and
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/? 
p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD


If the version you run (./config.guess) is already up to date, please
send the following data and any information you think might be
pertinent to  in order to provide the needed
information to handle your system.

config.guess timestamp = 2012-02-10

uname -m = ppc64le
uname -r = 3.16.0-4-powerpc64le
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u2 (2015-07-17)

/usr/bin/uname -p =
/bin/uname -X =

hostinfo   =
/bin/universe  =
/usr/bin/arch -k   =
/bin/arch  =
/usr/bin/oslevel   =
/usr/convex/getsysinfo =

UNAME_MACHINE = ppc64le
UNAME_RELEASE = 3.16.0-4-powerpc64le
UNAME_SYSTEM  = Linux
UNAME_VERSION = #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u2 (2015-07-17)
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
make[1]: *** [include/builddefs] Error 1
checking build system type... Makefile:89: recipe for target  
'include/builddefs' failed

make[1]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
make: *** [.census] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debian/rules:36: recipe for target '.census' failed

PPC64/Jessie/TrustyTahr - GraphicFailure

2015-08-26 Thread richard kuenz


Hello ,

i would like to use my newly acquired Powermac G5 with Linux PPC for 
Kodi/XBMC.


With Wheezy i had success installing and configuring sound with the help 
of this list; so that was really nice.


but XBMC did not run as hoped as there were quite some broken 
dependencies; so i ended up upgrading to jessie;


but after upgrading, i get a messed up screen at StartX and cannot login.

same happened with ubuntu - which was very loud when installed from a 
mini.iso of 12.04 from 2010 - but after upgrading to 14.04 LTS 3 offered 
the same panorama - messed up graphic screen where the login-window used 
to be.



i am able with ALT+CTRL+f1 to enter terminal.

what can i do here?


thanks

richard

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2016-01-07 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello ,

can someone please help me to install Wheezy on a Powermac G5?


When i boot in open firmware

and then do


boot cd:,install yaboot


it says alwys "cd not found"



i really like my powermac g5 but i am bit afraid to use linux on it  
because i had so many problems.
last time i tried to install Ubuntu 15.10 via USB i had an error at  
the beginning of yaboot installer with strange message (cereal  
something) and i had to switch off powermac . Afterwards i was no more  
able to enter OsX 10.5.8 Leopard - there was just a Bluescreen that  
would not go away .



Plus, one mayor downfall with PPC Linux, as with Linux in General, is  
that the Bluetooth connectivity is nearly Zero - which is a pity  
because Reverse Tethering a Phone or Tablet via Bluetooth Pan is a  
really nice thing and seems to work fine only on Mac and less on  
Windows and even lesser on Linux .


Linux PPC would be especially nice to be able to continue using  
programs such as Kodi, which on PPC mac are no more updated.



Thank you very much for your help.


rich



Am 03.01.2016 um 08:08 schrieb Peter Saisanas:


Hi Andreas,
Unless the kernel dmesg logs are lying, the Powermac G5 (11.2) uses  
the SMU and the Powermac G5 (7.2) uses the PMU.


Regards,
Peter

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2016-01-31 Thread Richard Kuenz

Hello ,

today i had a good day - 

triple boot my acer aspire with debian stretch - windows 8 - mackintosh / hack 
ML2 (which is super fast!)

and finally could boot decently into a PowerMac G5 linux distro  - without big 
issues - thanks to threes modifications

having also a Nvidia 5200



http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1289




Thank you all so much for your help - hope now to get kodi and linphone running!

Powermac OSX leopard is still my favorite though, because everything works like 
a wonder. Especially Bluetooth Tethering which i like very much - giving 
Internet to Phone and Tablet without much fuss. Never was able to get it 
working on Windows - but i am not such a passionate user, though.


Hopefully it will be possible to integrate a valid Bluetooth solution into the 
PPC Laptop - that would be wonderful!


All the Best
Rich




Am Dec 30, 2015 um 9:44 PM schrieb Peter Saisanas :

> Hi Aidan,
> 
> Please use this 3.18.16 kernel. Link below:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k
> 
> Please post a complete dmesg log. (Please dont grep anything, i mean a 
> complete dmesg log).
> 
> Also please post the output of "cat /proc/interrupts".
> 
> I think a step has been missed where the msi interrupts are required to be 
> disabled. this is required for PMAC's with PCIe (PMAC 11.2).
> Perhaps MSI interrupts may or may not be required for AGP based GPU's.
> 
> I take it your machine is an AGP + PCIx Powermac G5?
> 
> Hopefully the two logs mentioned may shed some light on the issue and 
> hopefully help sort out your problem.
> I assume you already have a kernel running with a 4k pagesize?
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
> On 31/12/15 03:57, Aidan Sciortino wrote:
>> The card and monitor both worked fine under mac os x, and the color is fine 
>> in the terminal. I'm not sure what would indicate a gpu or monitor error, 
>> but they a were both working fine under os x.
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try a different cable.
>> 
>> Aidan
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:54 AM Brock Wittrock  
>> wrote:
>> Have you ruled out the possibility of a hardware issue either with your 
>> monitor, video card port(s), and video cable itself?  Sometimes bent or 
>> missing pins on the video cables or loose connections can cause such 
>> problems.  Just wanted to throw that out there.
>> 
>> B-rock
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Aidan Sciortino 
>> <2001flyingpig...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> I have installed the kernel as suggested above,  and when I run uname -a it 
>> returns that the kernel is running, but the graphical errors persist. Do I 
>> need to do something more? I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to graphics, so 
>> I may have just gotten it wrong.
>> 
>> Thanks for the help
>> 
>> Aidan Sciortino
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas  wrote:
>> Hi Aidan,
>> 
>> Welcome to the Debian-on-G5-Macs club!
>> 
>> Peter Saisanas has a patched kernel that fixes this problem.
>> 
>> Check out this discussion in the mail archives:
>>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/11/msg6.html
>> 
>> To cut to the chase,
>> 1) download the two ".deb" files at this URL:
>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfaDdaOGJndzU2SlE&usp=sharing&tid=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk
>> do the following steps as root
>> 2) do a "dpkg -i" on each of these ".deb" files.
>> 3) do "update-initramfs -u"
>> 4) Modify your "/etc/yaboot.conf" file to add a stanza pointing to the
>> new kernel and initrd files in /boot
>> 5) run "ybin"
>> 6) reboot and select the new yaboot option you created in step 4
>> 
>> You should be good to go
>> 
>> I've CC-ed Peter in case he sees anything I've missed here...
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/29/2015 3:27 PM, Aidan Sciortino wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I've successfully gotten Debian 8 stable up and running on my powermac
>> > g5, but am struggling to get a gui configured. The computer has an
>> > Nvidia fx 5200 graphics card, and I'm using the nouveau driver.   The
>> > colors are extremely messed up, and I'm thinking it's a problem with
>> > nouveau. Has anyone else had this problem before? Does anyone know of
>> > a solution?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Aidan
>> > --
>> > Aidan Sciortino
>> > Inventor
>> > Engineer
>> > Dreamer
>> 
>> -- 
>> Aidan Sciortino
>> Inventor
>> Engineer
>> Dreamer
>> 
>> -- 
>> Aidan Sciortino
>> Inventor
>> Engineer
>> Dreamer
>

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2016-01-31 Thread Richard Kuenz

Forgot to add,

i used Lubuntu LTS 14.04 Alternate Install for Powermac

Cool :)

Am Dec 31, 2015 um 4:05 PM schrieb Linux User #330250 :

> Thanks.
> 
> I've got the same. It is the Original (2003) and "Late 2003".
> I had trouble installing Debian on my PowerMac7,2 as I wanted a 64-bit
> version. I now understand that you should use the regular PowerPC based
> distribution "powerpc", not "ppc64el" which is for POWER systems only.
> 
> My HDD just died, so this project came to an abrupt halt.
> 
> I used Gentoo Linux on my G5 a view years ago with a  true ppc64
> installation. I think this is not possible on Debian, and there really
> are very rare conditions when 64-bit is actually better than 32-bit on a
> G5 system.
> 
> Hope G5s will again be supported out-of-the-box by Debian/PowerPC!
> Good luck,
> Andreas  aka  Linux User #330250
> 
> 
> Am 2015-12-31 um 15:43 schrieb Aidan Sciortino:
>> This is  actually a powermac 7,2 not a 9,1. I'm going to install that
>> kernel later.
>> 
>> Thanks for the advice
>> 
>> Aidan Sciortino
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 4:16 AM Linux User #330250 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry to interrupt…
>>> 
>>> I always thought that the 1.8 GHz Late 2004 model (PowerMac9,1) was the
>>> only Power Mac G5 ever to use a SMU instead of a PMU. It is the one that
>>> internally uses iMac technology (bus ration 3:1).
>>> 
>>> All other Power Mac G5 machines use a PMU. Including the last Late 2005
>>> PCI-Express models (PowerMac11,2).
>>> 
>>> I did not find a specific site that confirms that, but you can check on
>>> everymac.com for the specs of the G5s. The PowerPac9,1 internally is an
>>> iMac G5 and they use SMUs.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andreas  aka  Linux User #330250
>>> 
>>> Am 2015-12-31 um 01:37 schrieb Peter Saisanas:
 Hi Aidan,

 I have had a look at the logs you provided.

 The kernels i have provided are specifically configured for the last
 Powermac G5's (11.2).
 Regarding the fans, note the following line in your dmesg log:

 [0.00] WARNING ! Your machine is PMU-based but your kernel
 [0.00]   wasn't compiled with CONFIG_ADB_PMU option !

 The Powermac 11.2 machines use the SMU for environmental control,
 whereas your machine seems to require PMU to be enabled.
 Cant remember if this is enabled in the kernel, when i get a moment
 later on i may have a look.

 You may need to reconfigure and recompile a kernel to address this.

 Regarding your fan issue, have you tried running sudo modprobe
 i2c-powermac to see if that addresses the issue? If it does, go ahead
 and add this module to your /etc/modules file so it automatically
 loads in the future.

 Regarding your display issues, for starters, on your kernel command
 line you have effectively disabled the Nouveau module.
 Nouveau hasn't even started.

 Try removing "nouveau.modeset=0 video=TV-1:d video=DVI-I-1:d
 video=DVI-I-2:1920x1080:-24:D" from your kernel command line.

 Also, ensure the "nv" module is blacklisted as it conflicts with nouveau.

 Please provide the same logs after the changes i mentioned.

 Regarding the comment "I have used linux for about three years, but
 I've never gone this deep into a system before.".

 When your using a an alternative architecture (i.e. anything other
 than x86), it forces you to learn linux. IMO, its the best way to
 learn linux!

 Good luck!

 Regards,
 Peter

 On 31/12/15 10:55, Aidan Sciortino wrote:
> I have an AGP g5. The kernel that you have listed is the one that I
> am using. It also appears that something is wrong with the windfarm
> driver, because after about five minutes the fans are blowing at top
> speed. I've attatched the two logs as text files. dmesgOut.txt is the
> output of dmesg and interruptOut.txt is the output of cat
> /proc/interrupts. I have used linux for about three years, but I've
> nevere gone this deep into a system before.
> 
> Thank you so much for the help!
> 
> Aidan
> 
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Peter Saisanas  > wrote:
> 
>Hi Aidan,
> 
>Please use this 3.18.16 kernel. Link below:
> 
> 
>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k
>Please post a complete dmesg log. (Please dont grep anything, i
>mean a complete dmesg log).
> 
>Also please post the output of "cat /proc/interrupts".
> 
>I think a step has been missed where the msi interrupts are
>required to be disabled. this is required for PMAC's with PCIe
>(PMAC 11.2).
>Perhaps MSI interrupts may or may not be required for AGP based
> GPU's.
> 
>I take it your machine is an AGP + PCIx Powermac

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2016-01-31 Thread Richard Kuenz

hm after upgrade to kernel 3.13 solution is broke again i don't know . sorry 
for bothering .



Am Jan 31, 2016 um 9:47 PM schrieb Richard Kuenz :

> Hello ,
> 
> today i had a good day - 
> 
> triple boot my acer aspire with debian stretch - windows 8 - mackintosh / 
> hack ML2 (which is super fast!)
> 
> and finally could boot decently into a PowerMac G5 linux distro  - without 
> big issues - thanks to threes modifications
> 
> having also a Nvidia 5200
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1289
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you all so much for your help - hope now to get kodi and linphone 
> running!
> 
> Powermac OSX leopard is still my favorite though, because everything works 
> like a wonder. Especially Bluetooth Tethering which i like very much - giving 
> Internet to Phone and Tablet without much fuss. Never was able to get it 
> working on Windows - but i am not such a passionate user, though.
> 
> 
> Hopefully it will be possible to integrate a valid Bluetooth solution into 
> the PPC Laptop - that would be wonderful!
> 
> 
> All the Best
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am Dec 30, 2015 um 9:44 PM schrieb Peter Saisanas :
> 
>> Hi Aidan,
>> 
>> Please use this 3.18.16 kernel. Link below:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k
>> 
>> Please post a complete dmesg log. (Please dont grep anything, i mean a 
>> complete dmesg log).
>> 
>> Also please post the output of "cat /proc/interrupts".
>> 
>> I think a step has been missed where the msi interrupts are required to be 
>> disabled. this is required for PMAC's with PCIe (PMAC 11.2).
>> Perhaps MSI interrupts may or may not be required for AGP based GPU's.
>> 
>> I take it your machine is an AGP + PCIx Powermac G5?
>> 
>> Hopefully the two logs mentioned may shed some light on the issue and 
>> hopefully help sort out your problem.
>> I assume you already have a kernel running with a 4k pagesize?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>> 
>> On 31/12/15 03:57, Aidan Sciortino wrote:
>>> The card and monitor both worked fine under mac os x, and the color is fine 
>>> in the terminal. I'm not sure what would indicate a gpu or monitor error, 
>>> but they a were both working fine under os x.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try a different cable.
>>> 
>>> Aidan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:54 AM Brock Wittrock  
>>> wrote:
>>> Have you ruled out the possibility of a hardware issue either with your 
>>> monitor, video card port(s), and video cable itself?  Sometimes bent or 
>>> missing pins on the video cables or loose connections can cause such 
>>> problems.  Just wanted to throw that out there.
>>> 
>>> B-rock
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Aidan Sciortino 
>>> <2001flyingpig...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> I have installed the kernel as suggested above,  and when I run uname -a it 
>>> returns that the kernel is running, but the graphical errors persist. Do I 
>>> need to do something more? I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to graphics, 
>>> so I may have just gotten it wrong.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the help
>>> 
>>> Aidan Sciortino
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas  wrote:
>>> Hi Aidan,
>>> 
>>> Welcome to the Debian-on-G5-Macs club!
>>> 
>>> Peter Saisanas has a patched kernel that fixes this problem.
>>> 
>>> Check out this discussion in the mail archives:
>>>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/11/msg6.html
>>> 
>>> To cut to the chase,
>>> 1) download the two ".deb" files at this URL:
>>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfaDdaOGJndzU2SlE&usp=sharing&tid=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk
>>> do the following steps as root
>>> 2) do a "dpkg -i" on each of these ".deb" files.
>>> 3) do "update-initramfs -u"
>>> 4) Modify your "/etc/yaboot.conf" file to add a stanza pointing to the
>>> new kernel and initrd files in /boot
>>> 5) run "ybin"
>>> 6) reboot and select the new yaboot option you created in step 4
>>> 
>>> You should be good to go
>>> 
>>> I've CC-ed Peter in case he sees anything I've missed here...
>>> 
>>> Rick
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12/29/2015 3:27 PM, Aidan Sciortino wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I've successfully gotten Debian 8 stable up and running on my powermac
>>> > g5, but am struggling to get a gui configured. The computer has an
>>> > Nvidia fx 5200 graphics card, and I'm using the nouveau driver.   The
>>> > colors are extremely messed up, and I'm thinking it's a problem with
>>> > nouveau. Has anyone else had this problem before? Does anyone know of
>>> > a solution?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > Aidan
>>> > --
>>> > Aidan Sciortino
>>> > Inventor
>>> > Engineer
>>> > Dreamer
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Aidan Sciortino
>>> Inventor
>>> Engineer
>>> Dreamer
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Aidan Sciortino
>>> Inventor
>>> Engineer
>>> Dreamer
>> 
>

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Richard Kuenz


Hello ,

some day ago i tried to install Stretch PPC using Installer-Alpha 4 - 
but it always finished off when tryxing to install Software Packages. 
Why is that so?
Do i need to use always the latest installers (in this case Alpha-5 i 
guess)?

Jessie installed fine , though.
I bought also a Radeon x800 xt as replacement for NVidia 5200 FX , so i 
am wondering how this will change my Linux experience on G5 Powermac to 
the better.



Thanks

Rich

Rick Thomas schrieb:

On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies  wrote:


On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote:

On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies  wrote:


In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled 
some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions as to which one I try first and any 
particular messages in the thread I should pay attention to?

If your G5 is a "PowerMac11,2" like mine, then Peter's "4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64" kernel works 
well for me with the "VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 LE] (rev 
a2)" graphics card.



Thanks Rick

That is the machine exactly :-)

Are you running sid or jessie?


Stretch.

In the sources.list, I have jessie, jessie/updates, jessie-updates, 
jessie-backports, and stretch repositories; all with main, non-free, and 
contrib activated.

HTH!
Rick

Re: Powermac G5 - flash

2016-02-12 Thread Richard Kuenz



HTML5 is very bothering i think because it consumes a lot of energy.

you can disable automatic playback of it by going to


in firefox

type


about:config (in statusbar)


then click "OK"


search for "webm" (again in statusbar)


disable automatic playback webm content or so.



id try to use


firefox + greasemonkey + viewtube (by sebaro script) instead.


then u can use mplayer or vlc plugin to playback video - that should 
work better.



there is also a greasemonkey port for seamonkey on sourceforce but i did 
not find it installable.


strangely enough i found last time greasemonkey not installable on 
powerpc g5 machine. i dont know why, though. please someone try this out



thanks


richard

http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en
https://github.com/sebaro/ViewTube






On 2016-02-12 10:25, Clive Menzies wrote:

On 12/02/16 09:18, Chris Wareham wrote:

Hi Clive,

YouTube should just work these days, since it falls back to using a HTML5
player. If it's not doing
that automatically then you can go to the following page to check:

https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB

I think you may need some extra gstreamer plugins installed if it show
you don't
have full support
for the required formats.

I wouldn't bother with the Gnash or Lightspark plugins that attempted
to create
open source
equivalents of the the Flash plugin. I found them very buggy and
incomplete even
when they were
under active development.


Many thanks Chris

and for the machine which is great.

Regards

Clive

Re: Powermac G5 - youtube video - SOLVED

2016-02-12 Thread Richard Kuenz

Only thing is, with these solution you block out "Subtitles" option or " 
captions or CC . this is as far as i know only possible with flash or 
html5. correct me please if i am wrong


thanks

rich

Clive Menzies schrieb:


Thanks Rich

I had vlc but not browser-plugin-vlc

gecko-mediaplayer isn't in stretch but I installed it from jessie.

Still no joy on youtube videos. spinning disc in the middle of the frame 
as though the stream is trying to download. Same result with html5.


However, I disabled html5 according to your earlier instruction and hey 
presto - youtube plays :-)


/you can disable automatic playback of it by going to//
//
//in firefox//
//
//type//
//
//about:config(in statusbar)//
//
//then click "OK"//
//
//search for "webm" (again in statusbar)//
//
//disable automatic playback webm content or so.

/Many thanks/

/Clive/
/


On 12/02/16 13:24, Richard Kuenz wrote:

plus i would install also vlc-browser-plugin or similar for the distro you use. 
if you install vlc it probably gets installed automagically

hope this helps clive

rich


Am Feb 12, 2016 um 2:13 PM schrieb Clive Menzies :


Thanks Richard

Regards

Clive

On 12/02/16 13:04, Richard Kuenz wrote:

you need gecko-mediaplayer

Clive Menzies schrieb:

On 12/02/16 09:18, Chris Wareham wrote:

Hi Clive,

YouTube should just work these days, since it falls back to using a HTML5
player. If it's not doing
that automatically then you can go to the following page to check:

https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB

I think you may need some extra gstreamer plugins installed if it show you don't
have full support
for the required formats.

I wouldn't bother with the Gnash or Lightspark plugins that attempted to create
open source
equivalents of the the Flash plugin. I found them very buggy and incomplete even
when they were
under active development.

Cheers,

Chris


Hi Chris

I've got these and grepped apt-cache gstrreamer for mozilla/html but couldn't 
find anything. Any idea of what may be missing? There seem to be loads of them.

clive@Pandora:~$ dpkg -l | grep gstreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa:powerpc 0.10.36-2  powerpc   
   GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs:powerpc 0.10.36-2  
powerpc  GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:powerpc 0.10.36-2  powerpc 
 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav:powerpc 1.6.3-1powerpc   
   libav plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:powerpc 1.6.3-1powerpc  
GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:powerpc 1.6.3-1powerpc  
GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii  gstreamer1.0-x:powerpc 1.6.3-1powerpc  
GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:powerpc 0.10.36-2  
powerpc  GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:powerpc 1.6.3-1powerpc 
 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0:powerpc 0.10.36-1.5powerpc   
   Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0:powerpc 1.6.3-1powerpc
  Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii  libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer 1:5.0.5~rc1-1 
 powerpc  GStreamer backend for LibreOffice

Thanks

Clive

Re: Powermac G5 - flash

2016-02-13 Thread Richard Kuenz

Am Feb 13, 2016 um 1:19 PM schrieb Riccardo Mottola 
:

> Hi,
> 
> On 02/12/16 12:52, Richard Kuenz wrote:
>> 
>> HTML5 is very bothering i think because it consumes a lot of energy. 
> 
> I found out that too HTML5 playback is almost unusable even on the fastest 
> 1.6GHz G4 under mac where Graphics is already better than linux (TenFourFox) 
> and also on a dual-core Intel Core, while you can still playback youtube with 
> flash on WindowsXP with an old 1.6Ghz Centrino. As I was able on the PowerMac 
> when flash PPC still existed.
> HTML5 players gives us finally Flash freedom, but apparently consume 4-5x CPU 
> power.
> 
> Riccardo
> 

Hello Riccardo,

on Powermac G4 you should install Osx Leopard. Then you can use Safari 
Extensions.

Just install Quicktime 7.7.1  and use ClicktoPlugin Safari extension. Go to the 
settings . Click playback with "Quicktime" instead of "HTML5" and the wonder 
starts. Unfortunately it does not work with tiger.
It is better to use Webkit for Leopard than Safari, actually.

Other solution, if you want to rely on TenFourFox, then install "QTE"  - 
Quicktime Enabler for TenFourFox, it is an add-on that let's you open via 
RightClick YouTube and other Files through Quicktime. It is not so fast than 
ClickToPlugin and not so charming, but hey, it works, and TenFourFox should be 
quite secure.

With these you should be able to watch videos propably even better than under 
Linux on your Powerbook G4 or Powermac G4

Other very great solution is "YouView" by MrGeckoMedia. Here you probably need 
also Perian installed. If you use OsX Leopard you could also install the Safari 
Extension for it to use instead of. Thats a cool program!

Hope this helps - Another reason to still love your Powerbook G4!

Rich

Re: Powermac G5 - flash

2016-02-13 Thread Richard Kuenz

This here is for Facebook


https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23619-flash-version-16-for-powerpc/






Am Feb 13, 2016 um 1:33 PM schrieb Richard Kuenz :

> 
> Am Feb 13, 2016 um 1:19 PM schrieb Riccardo Mottola 
> :
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 02/12/16 12:52, Richard Kuenz wrote:
>>> 
>>> HTML5 is very bothering i think because it consumes a lot of energy. 
>> 
>> I found out that too HTML5 playback is almost unusable even on the fastest 
>> 1.6GHz G4 under mac where Graphics is already better than linux (TenFourFox) 
>> and also on a dual-core Intel Core, while you can still playback youtube 
>> with flash on WindowsXP with an old 1.6Ghz Centrino. As I was able on the 
>> PowerMac when flash PPC still existed.
>> HTML5 players gives us finally Flash freedom, but apparently consume 4-5x 
>> CPU power.
>> 
>> Riccardo
>> 
> 
> 
> Hello Riccardo,
> 
> on Powermac G4 you should install Osx Leopard. Then you can use Safari 
> Extensions.
> 
> Just install Quicktime 7.7.1  and use ClicktoPlugin Safari extension. Go to 
> the settings . Click playback with "Quicktime" instead of "HTML5" and the 
> wonder starts. Unfortunately it does not work with tiger.
> It is better to use Webkit for Leopard than Safari, actually.
> 
> Other solution, if you want to rely on TenFourFox, then install "QTE"  - 
> Quicktime Enabler for TenFourFox, it is an add-on that let's you open via 
> RightClick YouTube and other Files through Quicktime. It is not so fast than 
> ClickToPlugin and not so charming, but hey, it works, and TenFourFox should 
> be quite secure.
> 
> With these you should be able to watch videos propably even better than under 
> Linux on your Powerbook G4 or Powermac G4
> 
> 
> Other very great solution is "YouView" by MrGeckoMedia. Here you probably 
> need also Perian installed. If you use OsX Leopard you could also install the 
> Safari Extension for it to use instead of. Thats a cool program!
> 
> 
> Hope this helps - Another reason to still love your Powerbook G4!
> 
> 
> Rich
>

Re: Powermac G5 - flash

2016-02-13 Thread Richard Kuenz

Very necessary on Powerbook G4 - FanControl!

http://jurriaandevos.nl/control-ibook-g4-temperature-with-g4fancontrol/




Am Feb 13, 2016 um 1:34 PM schrieb Richard Kuenz :

> This here is for Facebook
> 
> 
> https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23619-flash-version-16-for-powerpc/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am Feb 13, 2016 um 1:33 PM schrieb Richard Kuenz :
> 
>> 
>> Am Feb 13, 2016 um 1:19 PM schrieb Riccardo Mottola 
>> :
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 02/12/16 12:52, Richard Kuenz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> HTML5 is very bothering i think because it consumes a lot of energy. 
>>> 
>>> I found out that too HTML5 playback is almost unusable even on the fastest 
>>> 1.6GHz G4 under mac where Graphics is already better than linux 
>>> (TenFourFox) and also on a dual-core Intel Core, while you can still 
>>> playback youtube with flash on WindowsXP with an old 1.6Ghz Centrino. As I 
>>> was able on the PowerMac when flash PPC still existed.
>>> HTML5 players gives us finally Flash freedom, but apparently consume 4-5x 
>>> CPU power.
>>> 
>>> Riccardo
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Riccardo,
>> 
>> on Powermac G4 you should install Osx Leopard. Then you can use Safari 
>> Extensions.
>> 
>> Just install Quicktime 7.7.1  and use ClicktoPlugin Safari extension. Go to 
>> the settings . Click playback with "Quicktime" instead of "HTML5" and the 
>> wonder starts. Unfortunately it does not work with tiger.
>> It is better to use Webkit for Leopard than Safari, actually.
>> 
>> Other solution, if you want to rely on TenFourFox, then install "QTE"  - 
>> Quicktime Enabler for TenFourFox, it is an add-on that let's you open via 
>> RightClick YouTube and other Files through Quicktime. It is not so fast than 
>> ClickToPlugin and not so charming, but hey, it works, and TenFourFox should 
>> be quite secure.
>> 
>> With these you should be able to watch videos propably even better than 
>> under Linux on your Powerbook G4 or Powermac G4
>> 
>> 
>> Other very great solution is "YouView" by MrGeckoMedia. Here you probably 
>> need also Perian installed. If you use OsX Leopard you could also install 
>> the Safari Extension for it to use instead of. Thats a cool program!
>> 
>> 
>> Hope this helps - Another reason to still love your Powerbook G4!
>> 
>> 
>> Rich
>> 
> 
>

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