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pmud vs. pbbuttonsd on iBook

[Tony]

I am new to running debian (testing) on my iBook 600MHz M8600LL/A, I 
have been using Yellow Dog for some time.  I have been able to 
successfully install pbpbbuttonsd so that I can use the dim/brightness 
buttons as well as the volume buttons.  I have also been able to install 
pmud to control the sleep mode of the ibook, however the two appear to 
be mutually exclusive.  If I try installing pmud it requires removal of 
pbbuttonsd and vise versa.  Is there a solution to this problem?


Tony

Re: No /dev/pmu

[Tony]

I originally installed 'pmud' as that is what I have used with Yellowdog 
Linux.  I believe I also had to change the permissions on /etc/pmu to 
make the error message go away.


'pmud' was relaced when I installed 'pbbuttonsd'.  See the posting on 
this list with the subject "pmud vs. pbbuttonsd on iBook" dated 8/11/04.


Tony

Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:

'ello,

I have no /dev/pmu in a new installation of Sarge.  It is causing GNOME
to complain on startup and pbbuttonsd to fail to start.  How can I get
/dev/pmu back?  There is a /proc/pmu/ directory present.

I can't find any packages that seem to provide the facility to create a
/dev/pmu and I don't know the device numbers myself so wouldn't want to
use mknod directly.

I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to make/restore my
/dev/pmu.  Thanks in advance,

bye just now,

Re: alternative airport extreme card

[Tony]

Pau Rul·lan Ferragut wrote:

On Sunday 22 August 2004 18:07, George Wright wrote:


Does an alternative airport extreme card exist for ibook/PowerBook
G4 exist ?


Well, the card claims to be a mini-pci but it looks nothing like any
standard mini-pci card. I think the Apple Airport Extreme card is the only
card you can put into that slot.

However, you can grab a PCMCIA wireless card (I believe PCMCIA works under
Linux; never tried it though), or grab a USB dongle.



	I do not want to be rude but, where do you put the PCMCIA in a 
iBook/PowerBook G4?


For the newest hardware, I believe only the 15" and 17" PowerBooks have 
PCMCIA, the G4 iBooks do not.


From the Technical specs from apple.com...

"One PC Card/CardBus slot supporting one Type I or Type II card (15-inch 
and 17-inch models)"


http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html

You can still find a few new but recently discontinued G3 iBooks 
#M8758LL/A that use the original Airport card.

Battery monitor

[Tony]

I am using Sarge 'testing' (RC1 installer) on a G3 iBook.

I am trying to find a batter monitor to use with gnome.  I have 
pbbuttonsd/powerprefs installed.  When I try to use 'Battery Charge 
Monitor 2.6.2' it comes up but always shows the battery as empty.


Is there something missing to use 'Battery Charge Monitor' or is there 
some other monitor that I could use?


Thanks,
Tony

nVidia support: Where to start?

[Tony Arnold]

All,
 
I'm thinking of trying to "fix" nVidia support on 
ppc, but I have absolutely no idea where I should start. Would I be better off 
trying to fix 'rivafb' in the kernel, or the 'nv' driver in XFree86? I know very 
little about coding, so I'm not interested in 3D/advanced feature support 
at this stage, but I would like to be able to use my GeForce2MX at decent 
resolutions with 32-bit colour.
 
Could the gurus and non-gurus alike please 
enlighten me? Which driver would be more 'proper' to fix?
 
thanks,
 
 
Tony Arnold
 
 
PS: This is not saying that I will be able to make 
the drivers work - I'd just like to have a looksee at why they 
don't

Re: nVidia support: Where to start?

[Tony Arnold]

Thanks for the speedy reply Michael!

>
> If I had to deal with this (I'm glad I don't) I'd start with the XFree86
nv
> driver because it offers more benefit (decent 2D acceleration, XVideo,
...) .
>

That seems to be the attitude of most linux users to nVidia (I can
understand why!), but somebody needs to step up to the plate - I don't know
enough (yet) to make a big difference, but it'll be a menacing learning
project *grin* (I'm a glutton for punishment)

There's enough people out there with AGP GeForce cards in their G4's that
something really needs to happen...I was thinking the 'nv' driver as well -
what real benefit do console drivers actually offer XFree86?

Oooh :) Now I'm excited about learning! Everything else runs wonderfully on
my DP G4, if I can get XFree86 running, I will be a happy person.

>
> PS: HTML mail won't be read by all people here.
>

I apologise - I didn't realise that I had sent HTML mail...I don't normally
:( Stoopid outlook expressI promise I won't do it again!

thanks,

Tony Arnold
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Re: nVidia support: Where to start?

[Tony Arnold]

Andrew Sharp wrote:

>If he gets the rivafb driver working, does that mean that the X
>frame buffer driver could be used? (My ignorance is showing.)  If
>not, then I agree, the nv driver would have more benefit.

The 'rivafb' driver is already 'working' (not well though) - it supports
messed up 8-bit colour using the XFree86 'fbdev' driverI guess I'm
really only interested in getting X running at this stage, so I'll probably
focus on the 'nv' driver - IIRC, Dan Burcaw @ Terrasoft has been working on
the 'rivafb' kernel driver - I haven't heard anything from him for a while
though...

BTW: Can anyone point me in the direction of some good guides/FAQs/info
about fixing endian issues and the such? Also, any useful tips of pointers
to get me started would be excellent :)

Thankyou all,

Tony Arnold

Re: nVidia support: Where to start?

[Tony Arnold]

Well, I'm sorry to say that I have taken the coward's way out: I swapped my
gf a Voodoo 5500 for her Rage 128, and I'll be using that in my G4
instead...

I need to start small - I think writing a driver for a video card is
somewhere up around 'big' :)

Thanks,

Tony Arnold 

XFree86 Question

[Tony Arnold]

All,

Quick question: What's the easiest way to get the console to show up on an
openfirmware driver GeForce 2MX AGP, and X to display on a PCI rage 128?

Is this even possible? I don't care about accelerated X, but I only have on
monitor, and if possible, I'd like to just switch the cable to the Rage128
when I want to use linux. I've found removing the GeForce 2 lets me see the
console on the Rage 128, but it doesn't show up at all if the GF2 is still
in the machine...

HELP :)

Tony Arnold

Re: Bug#442040: coreutils: FTBFS on PPC in seq test suite

[Tony Breeds]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:14:34PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:

> Ok, can anyone test what happens with gcc 4.1? (I kinda suspect some 
> kind of wacky code generation bug on ppc, because it works fine on alpha 
> amd64 hppa i386 ia64 mipsel sparc, and seq just doesn't do anything 
> particularly complicated.)

Ran a couple of quick compile tests, gcc-4.0 works gcc-4.1 and gcc-4.2
fail.  Haven't had time to track down what the difference in the
generated code is though.

In the short term, can the build famr be forced to use gcc-4.0 ?

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Re: Help! Debian ppc64

[Tony Breeds]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:26:30PM -0400, Cesar Bello wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for information about the implementations and projects for
> Debian on the Powerpc 64 bits servers. I'm working in a presentation about
> this topic, but I have troubles to find information about it.
> 
> If someone knows were can I find
> 
> Thanks for your help

Hello Cesar,
Your question is a little vague.  What sort of information would
you like?
 - a list of applications that run on powerpc64
 - a description of the advantages of the powerpc64 architecture?
 - something else?

I'm sure we can help you if you're a little more specific.

Yours Tony

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Re: internet connection not working

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:12:32PM -0600, Joe Corneli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just did a minimal installation from CD without an internet
> connection, because for some reason the installation program couldn't
> configure the internet to use it.  I had successfully done the full
> netinstall using the same CD and computer earlier, and my internet
> connection works with another computer.  Can you give me any advice on
> how to decide whether my computer is broken?

You'll need to describe your setup in a little more detail.

I /assume/ that you have some for of networked router which is happily
talkign to another computer but not this one?

Also a description of your IP settings will help.

Yours Tony

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Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:21:27PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote:

Hi Jörg,
Thanks for passing on the patch to this thread.  It looks to me
that the trhread changed topic at the mid point ;P

> The rest of the patch is code beautifying.

In the 32bit case, you're right the second hunk isn't strictly needed,
but in the 64bit case it is.

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Re: etch hang on ibm JS21 and power 5 505

[Tony Breeds]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:46:30PM +0100, Frank Habermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i wanted to run debian etch on a IBM power pc. So i tried to install etch on 
> a 
> JS21 Blade and on a Power 5 505. The installation works fine. But at the 
> first boot the system hangs and nothing happens. I did not found anything and 
> did not know what is wrong. So where can i get some informations for debug 
> now? Or does somebody has the same problems?

How far through the boot does it get?

If you can capture the SOL output and email it through that will help in
diagnosing where to look next.

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Re: etch hang on ibm JS21 and power 5 505

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:55:32PM +0100, Frank Habermann wrote:
> Hi,
> >If you can capture the SOL output and email it through that will help in
> >diagnosing where to look next.
> >  
> So i have logged all. The log is available at:
> http://download.lordlamer.de/log/debian-power.log


Ahh okay it looks like your system booted correctly but for one reason
or another you don't have a console.

I think you needs to do something like:
a) Boot into a rescue environment
   - I'd do this by adding init=/bin/bash to the commandline in yaboot
b) remount the / filesystem read/write
   - mount -o,remounr,rw / # should do it.
c) change /etc/inittab to run a getty on hvc0
d) Enable root logins on hvc0 by editing /etc/securetty
e) finish the boot brocess with  "exec /sbin/init"

This /should/ get you a completely booted system with a getty available
via SOL.

An alternate approach would be to boot into the rescue environment and
mount the root fs read write (steps a and b above).  Bring up the
network and install sshd.  Then when the system boots and enables sshd
you should be able to get into it.  From there you can experiment with
getting the SOL console to work.

Hope that helps.

Yours Tony

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Re: Kernel 2.6.23-1 disables brightness controls?

[Tony Breeds]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:54:44PM +0100, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> I have recently upgraded my laptop (iBook G4) to kernel 2.6.23-1,
> which seems to be working perfectly in everything but the control of
> screen brightness.
> 
> The screen is fixed to some intermediate level of brightness which I
> can't change. Whenever I press Fn+F1 or F2, the dialog of GTKPBButtons
> appears, but displaying "Brightness 0%", and never changing the value
> nor the real brightness of the screen.
> 
> Does anybody else experience this? Does anbody know how to fix it, or
> to what it can be related?

I think this is broken in 2.6.23.  I also think it's been fix in .24
when it comes out.

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Re: pidof not working for postgresql-8.3 ?

[Tony Breeds]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:12:33AM +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> [Running Debian/Lenny powerpc on an iBook.]
> After upgrading from postgresql-8.1 to pg_8.3 I lost the capacity to
> connect to my databases.
> Besides that I just found out that 'pidof' doen't seem to work for the
> ordinary user, as far as postgresql is concerned, whereas it works
> regularly for other processes:
> 
> user$ pidof /usr/sbin/apache
> 19095 19094 19093 19092 19091 19088
> 
> user$ pidof /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin.postmaster
> [nihil]

Umm you have bin.postmaster (note the . not a /) here so I'd expect that
to be empty.  Does it work if you use:
pidof /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postmaster

You might also want to look at pgrep.

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Re: Yaboot

[Tony Breeds]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:28:53AM -0600, Esteban Monge wrote:
> Hello People
> 
> I dont know about this questions went formulated, but is possible add
> graphics to yaboot or boot menu similar to grub???

In short I would say no.  While it is tecnically possible it would
require a lot of coding!
 
> And i want a little manual with the yaboot compilation and installation...

The yaboot project's homepage is at: http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ , and the
the yaboot INSTALL file says:
---
The fastest way to install ybin and yaboot is to run `make install'.

This will install the man pages in /usr/local/man by default and
ybin/mkofboot in /usr/local/sbin.  yaboot and ofboot will be
installed in /usr/local/lib/yaboot/.

you may change the install paths by setting variables ROOT, PREFIX and
MANDIR to make.  ie make ROOT=/ PREFIX=/usr MANDIR=/share/man (this is
only
intended for package maintainers.)

yaboot can be installed where you like but
/usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot is the first default location ybin will
look, followed by /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.

ybin needs hfsutils version 3.2.6 or later.

The man pages should be installed in /usr/local/man/man?/.  The *.8.gz
pages should be in /usr/local/man/man8/ and the *.5.gz page should be
in /usr/local/man/man5/.

If you need to remove ybin (say if your installing a debian package or
.rpm) you can do so by issuing the command `make deinstall'.
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If you have specific questions about yaboot, try here or the yaboot
maailing list (https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/yaboot-users)
> 
> And another thing, exist another boot loader diferent to yaboot???

I understand that GRUB2 supports some powerpc platforms, but I haven't
tested it nor do I really follow it's development.

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Re: IBM JS21 Blade and debian-40r6-powerpc-netinst.iso

[Tony Breeds]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:06:48AM -0500, dave oswald wrote:


>Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.
> 
>Its worth noting that the console to this system is frozen - and putty can
>not connect remotely.
> 
>Your thoughts and input are greatly appreciated.

IIRC this means that there is no getty running on hvc0, modify inittab
appropriatly ... oh and probably securetty.

If that fixes it please file a bug.

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Re: NIC bonding on pSeries with dual VIOS

[Tony Breeds]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:40:03PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> i've got Debian (testing) running on a DLPAR on a pSeries 9117-570.
> The system gets several NICs from two VIO servers, which in turn are
> connected to different switches for redundancy. Two NICs within each
> subnet are paired via bonding devices.
> Now the problem:
>  - If i choose 'balance-rr' as bonding mode our network guys complain,
>because the same MAC appears on two different switchports that be-
>long to the same VLAN. (Because the bonding interfaces MAC gets
>forced onto each slave eth-interface.)

If you uipgrade to a newer (sorry) kernel then you'll get a failover_mac option
to the bonding driver.  This will allow you to specify that the MAC address for
outbount packets should be the hardware MAC address.  Thsi will stop your
network admains complaining ;P

However it will not work out of the box.  You'll also need to ensure that both
underlying network devices are in promisicuous mode.  This shoudl give you the
failover you want

Of course it may not be suitable in your environment.

>  - 'balance-alb' would be an alternative, since it uses the MAC of
>the slave eth-interfaces instead of the one from the bonding inter-
>face. Unfortunately 'balance-alb' does not seem to be supported
>with the ibmveth driver.

Hmm can you provide some more details here?  I can't see a reason why this
would be so?

>  - 'active-backup' would also be an alternative, but then i can't
>reach other LPARs on the same machine which currently have their
>active interface on another VIO. LPARs with their active interface
>on the same VIO can be reached. This is strange, because the other
>LPARs (all AIX) use NIB (also active-backup NIC bonding) and can
>all reach eachother no matter on which VIO their active interface
>is.
> 
> Is the 'active-backup' problem a limitation of the ibmveth driver, or
> am i missing something here?

Not sure about your active-backup issuses, I've never used that mode.


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Re: NIC bonding on pSeries with dual VIOS

[Tony Breeds]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:30:52PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote:
 
> Errors on 'ifup bond3':
> bonding: bond3 is being created...
> bonding: bond3: setting mode to balance-alb (6).
> bonding: bond3: Setting ARP monitoring interval to 3000.
> bonding: bond3: ARP monitoring has been set up, but no ARP targets have 
> been specified.
> bonding: bond3: adding ARP target 172.25.123.210.
> bonding: bond3: Adding slave eth6.
> bonding: bond3: Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev eth6 failed! ALB mode 
> requires that the base driver support setting the hw address also when the 
> network device's interface is open

Ahhh thanks.  I'll poke at this from the kernel side and see if this is an
omission or a design limitation.

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Re: Retry: Debian on ibm iSeries

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:58:06PM +0100, Paride Desimone wrote:
> Hi,
> I retry with my question.
> There is someone who knows how to do to install Lenny on an ibm iSeries
> model 520 (aka AS400)?
> It's a Power5 machine.

Short answer
 * Install debian on a pSeries machine
 * Boot into a RHEL (or other suppoirted distro) on the iSeries
 * rsync the pSeries across
 * Setup the boot device in OS400
 * Enjoy debian goodness :)

Oh course there may be challenges along the way, but if you didn't like a
challenge you wouldn't be using debian ;P

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Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:29:59PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> today i tried to move a LPAR w/ Debian Lenny from a p570 (Power5+) to
> a p550 (Power6). The system resides on VIO-mapped SAN disks, so moving
> it wasn't a big deal. Unfortunately it bails out pretty early in the
> boot process with:
>   "unable to open file, Invalid device"

I have debian running on a variety of pSeries machines.

Can you send through your
1) /etc/yaboot.conf
2) output from fdisk -l
and 3) output from ls -l /boot/

We should be able to get this going.

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Re: Retry: Debian on ibm iSeries

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:56:30PM +0100, Paride Desimone wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 05/03/2009 alle 08.41 +1100, Tony Breeds ha scritto:
> 
> > Short answer
> >  * Install debian on a pSeries machine
> 
> Uhm, don't have not a pSeries machine... and now? :-)

Sorry don't know.

I suspect that you might be able to use one of the netboot (combined kernel and
initrd) images to boot into the installer where I hope things just work.

I installed my iSeries > 4 years ago, so mayeb the 2 OS shuffle isn't needed.

This sounds like an interesting challenge, if only I had more time ;P

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Re: PowerPC in little endian mode

[Tony Mantler]

At 2:52 AM -0600 2/17/2000, Patrick Lerda wrote:
>   Most of the trouble I have on my PowerPC platform came from the fact
>that
>   Linux work in big-endian mode,

[... "please run ppc-linux in little-endian mode" ...]

>   And so be able to get all the software from linux i386 working world
>without headache.

Perhaps it's just my m68k side speaking (m68k = big endian only, for those
who don't know), but I think it's safe to say that doing anything to make
it easier for lazy mouth-breathing code-typists to write sloppy and
incorrect code is a Bad Thing[tm].

Besides that, switching ppc-linux to little-endian mode would be (to put it
mildly) a pain in the ass of galactic proportions.


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Re: apmd and other archs

[Tony Mantler]

At 5:37 AM -0600 11/23/2000, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
[...]
>I agree that power management status/log should go to /var. On the other
>hand /etc has to be on the root fs for several reasons (/etc/inittab among
>others is quite important): IOW you don't use a separate mount point for
>/etc unless you want to play dirty tricks with init.
>
>Of cuorse there is a precedent for modifying /etc: /etc/mtab, but
>admittedly for good reasons. mount also puts lock files in /etc and has to
>have these funky option (-n and -f) to work around the chicken and egg
>problem of initial read only root filesystem mount by the kernel. Once you
>have these option I don't see any reason not to have /var/mtab instead for
>example but maybe I miss something.
>
>Now /etc/mtab is also somewhat redundant with /proc/mounts. Actually you
>should be able to link /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts but it raises a lot of
>problems and does not work satifactorily in my experience.
[...]

I think technically the /proc filesystem is optional. Requiring /proc for
mount to function gives you another fun chicken + egg of how the heck do
you then mount /proc on startup? ;)

At the risk of drifting way off topic, it might be worth looking at
rewriting mount and fellow /etc/mtab users to just never need to use a file
like /etc/mtab. I can particularily recall a few times where a stale,
unwritable /etc/mtab made some system reconfiguration and/or system
recovery about 5 times more annoying than it needed to be.

30 years of unix tradition be damned, /etc/mtab sucks.


As for pmud, why not use a socket interface for everything? Using loopback
tcp  in one place and a file in another place seems a bit silly to me.


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Re: 3COM 3c905c again

[Tony Mantler]

At 6:49 PM -0600 12/3/2000, Jonathan Lane wrote:
>(although I've not tried
>using X yet, as XF86 4.0.1 is currently broken...).

X4 works for me[tm] on my 9600 with debian. Of course, I seem to be the
only person on the planet who's got X working in a 9600, with an imstt, in
the bottom slots, without offb, etc etc etc, so ymmv.


>However, now I am having another problem:  When I ping the machine,
>I see the RX light on the NIC flash, but the source machine doesn't
>get any responses.
>
>A few things to note:  Every once in a while, I see the following
>message:
>
>   eth1: Setting promiscuous mode.

Probably from dhcpcd sending out a broadcast to find a DHCP server.


>Also, in my syslog, dhcpd complains with:
>
>Aug 27 16:42:20 colour dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:00:46:05:9c:c8
>via eth1
>Aug 27 16:42:20 colour dhcpd-2.2.x: no free leases on subnet 192.168.1.0
>
>(Ignore the date, my clock had yet to be set).  But this indicates that
>packets *are* getting thru, as the MAC address shown above is correct.

Check your DHCP server configuration and logfiles. It would appear your
server doesn't want to give your client an IP address.

Note that when dhcpcd doesn't get an IP address, it will deconfigure the
interface it's on, thus not allowing any traffic through.


>If anyone can shed some light on this matter, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>I'd also like to know why the last four PCI slots don't work properly,
>although it appears it's not incredibly important now, unless X doesn't
>work...

I think there's some PCI bogosity in the standard 2.2 kernels when it comes
to PCI-PCI bridges. I've had fairly good luck with 2.2 with a PCI patchset
that I don't recall the URL of, and more recently, with 2.4 rsynced from
penguinppc.

Someone else can answer with more authority on the subject.


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[Alumbaugh, Tony]

Dose anyone have a (debian 3.0 or YDL 3.0) kernel for booting a 43p-150 chrp
machine, already complied?  I have tried several, and the closest I have
gotten is one that will not recognize the floppy drive, so I can not load
the ramdisk.  Any links that will help would also be appreaticeted.

Tony Alumbaugh
(x) IBM'er

43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

[Alumbaugh, Tony]

Dose anyone have a (debian 3.0 or YDL 3.0) kernel for booting a 43p-150 chrp
machine, already complied?  I have tried several, and the closest I have
gotten is one that will not recognize the floppy drive, so I can not load
the ramdisk.  Any links that will help would also be appreaticeted.

Tony Alumbaugh
(x) IBM'er


Tony Alumbaugh, CCNA
Senior Network Project Manager
Comdata "Team IT"

Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

[Alumbaugh, Tony]

Sven,
Thanks for your help.  I downloaded the vmlinz-2.4.22-install  as you
suggested, but when I tried to boot my 43p from bootP (boot
net:,10.31.196.5,,10.31.196.6), I got the following error message.

"FILE: vmlinuz-2.4.22-install
Load Addr=0x4000 Max Size=0xbfc000
FINAL Packet Count = 7666
FINAL File Size = 3924912 bytes.

Unexpected Firmware Error:
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00300 at   %SRR0: 00c1b030   %SRR1: 3030
 ok
0 >"

Was this because the kernel was built for the pegasos and not directly for
the IBM?
 
Any additional help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Tony Alumbaugh

Re: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

[Alumbaugh, Tony]

The closets I have gotten to getting the box to boot was with a
zImage.chrp-rs6k file.  It would boot (using boot net: or boot floppy), then
ask for the ramdisk to be insterted, but would not recognize the /dev/fd0
device.

So, Yes, if you could build me an image that will boot the system, that
would be great!

Many thanks,

Tony Alumbaugh

RE: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

[Alumbaugh, Tony]

Sven,
As far as booting, that did the job!!  Thanks.  After I go through the
install and reboot, it will not reboot.  I have to boot net again, and none
of the drives get mounted. (You were right about the kernel install being
manual), How do I move it over from the bootp server?  And do I now need a
Kernel without initrd built in?

Tony Alumbaugh, CCNA
Senior Network Project Manager
Comdata "Team IT"

 -Original Message-
From:   Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   Monday, September 08, 2003 10:49 AM
To: Alumbaugh, Tony
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org'
Subject:Re: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:43:29AM -0500, Alumbaugh, Tony wrote:
> The closets I have gotten to getting the box to boot was with a
> zImage.chrp-rs6k file.  It would boot (using boot net: or boot floppy),
then
> ask for the ramdisk to be insterted, but would not recognize the /dev/fd0
> device.
> 
> So, Yes, if you could build me an image that will boot the system, that
> would be great!

Try the one at :

http://people.debian.org/~luther/tony

In one or two minutes, it should be ok, the file is :

  3929008 2003-09-05 17:06 zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k

No guarantee though, since certain things are hardcoded for pegasos
(like parted instead of ddisk, and keymap possibilities), but maybe it
can do.

Also some steps (like kernel and modules installation) where removed, so
you need to do them by hand.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

RE: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

[Alumbaugh, Tony]

I attempted to build on a redhat machine, but I don't know what I'm doing
(yet).  Here is the ibmchrp_defconfig from the linux-2.4.22 source.  Is this
the .config you can use to build a kernel for the 43p-150 I have?



Tony Alumbaugh, CCNA
Senior Network Project Manager
Comdata "Team IT"

 -Original Message-
From:   Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:26 AM
To: Alumbaugh, Tony
Cc: 'Sven Luther'; 'debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org'
Subject:Re: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:13:53AM -0500, Alumbaugh, Tony wrote:
> Sven,
> As far as booting, that did the job!!  Thanks.  After I go through the
> install and reboot, it will not reboot.  I have to boot net again, and
none
> of the drives get mounted. (You were right about the kernel install being
> manual), How do I move it over from the bootp server?  And do I now need a
> Kernel without initrd built in?

Nice it booted, i thought you will miss a lot of drivers though. I don't
know the details about your boxes boot-loader, but you definitively need
a kernel without initrd. I could send you one the same as before, but it
would be best to build one yourself if you can. Or at least configure it
and send me the .config so i can build it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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Re: Re: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

[Alumbaugh, Tony]

Sven,
Did you ever find time to build the 43p Kernel?  I do not see my response to
your question about initrd in the list archive, I must have hit exit instead
of send.  No, I do not think I need initrd in this kernel.  Since my last
post, I have gotten further on building my own chrp kernel on a linux box,
but I am getting an error when I run make zImage.initrd.  If anyone reading
this can lend any help with a how-to on kernel building that might help
also.

Again thanks for all your help.

XF86Config setup info for Nvidia-based cards

[Tony Marshall]

Hi Evan,

I am using Suse Linux 10 on a Toshiba laptop running nVidia's GeForce Go 6600 
graphics card.

I have no problems with it outside the fact that I cannot access resolution 
greater than 1024 x 768 with 24 bit colour depth, although I know that this 
caard has a much greater capability than this (esp. under windoze!!).

Nevertheless, I hope that this assists you in setting up your system.

Des.

/home/dessie/XF86Config
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Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

[Tony Vroon]

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A bisection between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17-rc1 (current GIT tree), which
took quite a few reboots, thinks this is the bad guy:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0652fc9a28c3ef8cd59264bfcb089c44d1b0e06

I see the same hang on my PowerBook 5,9 (17" G4 HR). Note that I don't
run Debian, but I thought I'd help out.
The patch has a bit too much changes behind it to do a simple revert.
Please CC me on any message after this, I'm not subscribed.

Regards,
Tony.
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Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

[Tony Vroon]

Michael Schmitz wrote:

A bisection between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17-rc1 (current GIT tree), which
took quite a few reboots, thinks this is the bad guy:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0652fc9a28c3ef8cd59264bfcb089c44d1b0e06

I see the same hang on my PowerBook 5,9 (17" G4 HR). Note that I don't
run Debian, but I thought I'd help out.
The patch has a bit too much changes behind it to do a simple revert.


Please add the later commit from Paulus on top of this one (ff2e6d7427...)
and try that one (may be necessary to apply the relevant part manually). 


I'm having a bit of trouble with reverting patches and adding new stuff 
on top, unfortunately. Git is quite new to me. I installed it so I could 
do a bisection to figure this out.

First result was bogus, not sure about the second one (this one) yet.



I've also seen mention of a new radeonfb - do you have a radeon or nvidia
machine?


This is an ATi-based machine, Mobility 9600 or 9700. Not sure of the 
exact number. As others have already tried, it doesn't seem to help to 
switch to OpenFirmware framebuffer. The machine will lock up anyway :/





    Michael




Regards,
Tony.


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Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

[Tony Vroon]

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Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Currently snd-aoa is known to work on the following machines:
> * PowerBook5,8
> * PowerBook5,7
> * PowerMac8,1
> * PowerMac8,2
> * 17" October 2005 PowerBook (don't know the number)

That would be the PowerBook 5,9 (confirmed working, that's what I have).

> * PowerMac11,2
> * PowerBook6,8
> and my
> * PowerBook5,6

> People with those machines are encouraged to use and stress-test it, it
> also provides much better hardware support than snd-powermac, for
> example it can actually reprogram the hardware if you have a 48KHz file
> instead of having to digitally downsample it to 44.1KHz like required
> with snd-powermac in most cases.

When writing documentation, you might want to add that the ALSA-plugin
in XMMS & Audacious requires a period time of 100ms instead of the
default of 50ms, as otherwise the sou*click*nd is n*click*ot ver*click*y
good.
(A look at the current code of that plugin, to see how the volume
control code can be fixed would be highly appreciated)

> There are apparently some cases where it loses interrupts and then the
> sound is garbled, my brother's investigating that at the moment, it
> doesn't happen with my powerbook nor with my powermac.

Not seen this, although I must say it does not resume from sleep as
gracefully as I have seen you describe it.

> But the other reason for writing this mail is that I finally found the
> last remaining bug that prevented sound module autoloading! :)

Much appreciated, thank you :)

> Now, when you boot, mac-io is already built-in so provides the i2s
> device, which my i2sbus module binds to. Since udev synthesizes events,
> i2sbus gets loaded automatically. Now, i2sbus creates uevents on its
> own, with the layout number given as the MODALIAS. Hence, the layout
> fabric module is loaded because it has an alias for all the layouts it
> handles, and it in turn requests all the codec modules that it requires.
> Also, this means that 'modprobe i2sbus' will suffice to get the driver
> up and running without a reboot, provided that all modules are
> installed.
> 
> Have fun,
> johannes

Regards,
Tony V.
(Chainsaw)
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Re: [PATCH] Revert "Link yaboot at 1MB"

[Tony Breeds]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:49:27PM +0200, John Ogness 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.

Can you get me a dump of your RMA memory properties and sizes of the
kernel and initrd?

I'd say that as most 'new' platforms have moved away from yaboot to grub
we're probably safe to apply this but I'd like to do more digging before
I commit to that.

Yours Tony.


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Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

[Tony Nelson]

On 10-06-30 08:39:06, Benjamin Cama wrote:

>  ... Furthermore, I think that most people here
> left are newworld users ...

Probably true, but FWIW I'm running Squeeze (from Lenny) on an old-
world Mac rev2 beige G3 desktop 416MiB 40GB, booting with BootX.  I'm 
not sure if it /can/ boot with yaboot, but in any case I've avoided 
Open Firmware and its bugs.  Upgrading kernels is a chore, though.

Note that Fedora has now made PPC a "Secondary Architecture", though I 
don't know if there is actually anything happening with it.  I picked 
Debian before that for my old Mac because Debian was said to work on 
old-world Macs.  I expect that I'll be able to use Squeeze for several 
years, even if it's the last release that works.

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Re: Help me, please.

[Tony Nelson]

On 10-10-05 12:18:04, Super Bisquit wrote:
>   You need to look for booting "old-world" macs.

I'm using bootx[1] on my 1999 rev. 2 beige G3, using Squeeze upgraded 
from Lenny.

[1] http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/

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Re: dist-upgrade failed squeeze

[Tony Nelson]

As no one more knowledgeable has responded, and despite that I haven't 
looked at my Squeeze installation (running Fedora 14 on this machine):

On 11-01-01 09:15:34, ver...@free.fr wrote:
 ...
> I try to dist-upgrade squeeze (as usual) on my iBookG4 but several
> things failed
 ...
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/reportlab/extensions/__init__.py'

Perhaps a package with a name containing "reportlab" is not installed?  
(python-reportlab on Fedora 14.)

> Maybe this second problem is just a consequence of the first one.

I don't think it is.  Apparantly you will be stuck using the old 
initscripts stuff and not the new upstart stuff until you resolve that 
problem.  Possibly it will work after libdevmapper1 (?) is updated.  
The link http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot is 
likely to be of some help, as might searching on upstart.

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Re: debian-powerpc´Ô ¾È³çÇϼ¼¿ä?

[Tony A. Emond]

Don't open that message with Evolution, or Evo will crash.

That msg was broadcast on the Evo support list a few days ago, to a
less-than-enthusiastic reception.

Cheers,
TAE