Re: Debian/PPC

1999-09-14 Thread Kevin Puetz
I'm not sure what you're referring to here. I was not asking for access to a PPC. I'm not a developer, though I may become one in the future once I'm all settled and sufficiently familiar with Debian conventions not to do anything stupid. I was saying that some sort of mechanism to distribute s

Re: console-apt

1999-09-14 Thread Christian Meder
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:39:27PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Chris, any thoughts on a non-experimental upload of binutils in the > near future? Powerpc is somewhat broken at present. Chris wrote on the debian-alpha list that he's preparing for hurricane Floyd and will resurface afterwards

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

1999-09-14 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:27:44PM -0500, Kevin Puetz wrote: > Judging by the number of deb packages that compile fine but are out-of-date > in the PPC tree, is more CPU horsepower needed to auto-build? > > I don't know what the protocol for this is, but I would be more than willing > to run a deb

Re: in.rshd vanished, and sound on powerstack

1999-09-14 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:38:52PM +0200, christian mock wrote: > hi, > > I noticed that in.rshd vanished from the last update of whatever > package it's supposed to be in... (well, switching to ssh now). netkit-rsh was split out from netstd. netstd was updated removing your rlogin/rsh utilitie

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

1999-09-14 Thread Martin Keegan
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Kevin Puetz wrote: > Judging by the number of deb packages that compile fine but are out-of-date > in the PPC tree, is more CPU horsepower needed to auto-build? > > I don't know what the protocol for this is, but I would be more than willing > to run a debian-compiler instead

Re: RS/6000

1999-09-14 Thread Cort Dougan
The newer firmware on the F50 has trouble with Linux. I think the firmware is flawed and am talking with the IBM firmware engineers about it now. You can downgrade to the older firmware or run UP. The short version is the secondary cpus cannot get the MMU turned on. The IR and DR bits are set,

in.rshd vanished, and sound on powerstack

1999-09-14 Thread christian mock
hi, I noticed that in.rshd vanished from the last update of whatever package it's supposed to be in... (well, switching to ssh now). and another thing: is anyone using sound on a motorola powerstack/riscpc machine (CS4231A) with 2.2.12? I'm seeing the effect that /dev/dsp takes 32bit per sampl

Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

1999-09-14 Thread Kevin Puetz
Judging by the number of deb packages that compile fine but are out-of-date in the PPC tree, is more CPU horsepower needed to auto-build? I don't know what the protocol for this is, but I would be more than willing to run a debian-compiler instead of looking for an RC5 client. I haven't done much

Re: RS/6000

1999-09-14 Thread David Welton
Ok, I am stumped. I have been trying to build an SMP kernel for my F50, and have hit a wall. It is stopping somewhere after prom_init (I added a prom_print that shows it is exiting this), and before printing anything else. It is still in OF. From what I can see in the code, after prom_init, it i

Re: console-apt

1999-09-14 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:35:07PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > Chris, any thoughts on a non-experimental upload of binutils in the > > near future? Powerpc is somewhat broken at present. As is ARM. > Yes, speaking of which, emacs20 is still broken at the moment, > be

Re: Linux Hacker Meeting (formerly m68k Hacker Meeting)

1999-09-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Bernd Harries wrote: > > > And Power supply of course. ;-) > > > > We will have 2x 3 different power cycles so we should not reach another > ^^ > > power breakdown - unless you carry

Re: Linux Hacker Meeting (formerly m68k Hacker Meeting)

1999-09-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: > Bernd Harries wrote: > > And Power supply of course. ;-) > > We will have 2x 3 different power cycles so we should not reach another ^^ > power breakdown - unless you carry tons of hardware with you... Power `cir

Re: console-apt

1999-09-14 Thread Josh Huber
Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > Chris, any thoughts on a non-experimental upload of binutils in the > near future? Powerpc is somewhat broken at present. Yes, speaking of which, emacs20 is still broken at the moment, because of a dependancy on liblockfile0, and liblockfile1 is the version that appear

Re: Linux Hacker Meeting (formerly m68k Hacker Meeting)

1999-09-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Bernd Harries wrote: > > we're happy to announce that the Linux User Group Oldenburg is > > organizing another instance of the traditional m68k hackers meeting in > > Oldenburg, Germany. > > Do we have to send application mails? Frank used them to schedule Yes, I just haven't gotton around prepar

Re: console-apt

1999-09-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Chris, any thoughts on a non-experimental upload of binutils in the near future? Powerpc is somewhat broken at present. On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:10:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 05:51:49PM +, Georg Bauer wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Anybody working on porting console-

Re: Linux Hacker Meeting (formerly m68k Hacker Meeting)

1999-09-14 Thread Bernd Harries
Moin Joey! Martin Schulze wrote: > we're happy to announce that the Linux User Group Oldenburg is > organizing another instance of the traditional m68k hackers meeting in > Oldenburg, Germany. Do we have to send application mails? Frank used them to schedule tables, chairs, drinks and Broetchen

Re: console-apt

1999-09-14 Thread Matt Porter
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 05:51:49PM +, Georg Bauer wrote: > Hi! > > Anybody working on porting console-apt to the powerpc plattform? Sure. There is a bug in the source package that prevents it from generating a package. The alpha autobuilder found it first and reported it. Only other proble

Re: Anacron and xcdroast problem report

1999-09-14 Thread John Whitley
Frank Petzold writes: > > problem. Here's a strace on "anacron -s": FYI, the anacron -s problem has been identified, a patch submitted, and should cease obnoxiously hanging your system once the next version is uploaded. The current broken one is 2.1-1; wait for its successor. -- John

Re: Linux (or other free OS) on RS/6000-MCA hardware

1999-09-14 Thread Alberto Varesio
>From an old FAQ at IBM ... 7012-320 : 20 Mhz POWER 7012-32H : 25 Mhz POWER ( sometimes called 320H ) 7012-340 : 33 Mhz POWER I've printed the full pages, so just ask. -- Alberto Varesio - AIX Support Professional Phone: +39-011-41581-11 EDIST Spa >>> Crack RC5-64 Moo @

Re: Linux (or other free OS) on RS/6000-MCA hardware

1999-09-14 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Phillip" == Phillip R Jaenke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Phillip> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:42:16AM -0700, Eric Dobbs Phillip> wrote: >> >From http://www.crs4.it/HTML/crs4doc/crs4guide_9.html, >> describing some old workstations of theirs: >> >> IBM 7012 mod. 320H

Re: Anacron and xcdroast problem report

1999-09-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> What is BTS? Bug-Tracking-System

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

1999-09-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> I upgraded gcc to version 2.95.1-2 and I cannot build any binaries. > > This is error messages. > --- > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppclinux > Supported emulations: elf32ppc > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > --- > > So I c

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

1999-09-14 Thread Susumu OSAWA
Oh, This problem already discussed in last week. I installed binutils 2.9.5.0.10-0.1 from project/experimental/ and it works correctly. > This is error messages. > --- > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppclinux > Supported emulations: elf32ppc > collect2: ld

Re: Anacron and xcdroast problem report

1999-09-14 Thread Frank Petzold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > No, this is a none bug in the BTS. It appears to be an arch-specific > problem. Here's a strace on "anacron -s": What is BTS? -- Frank Petzold, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel. +41-1-724-84-42 Fax. +41-1-724-89

gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

1999-09-14 Thread Susumu OSAWA
Hello, I upgraded gcc to version 2.95.1-2 and I cannot build any binaries. This is error messages. --- /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppclinux Supported emulations: elf32ppc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status --- So I checked gcc's