Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:52:16AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:04:27AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Just looked at the new version. It has changed in base-installer 1.14. > > Ignore me ;-) > > It's moved to a different file (kernel/powerpc.sh), but the code is > st

Re: Skype & qemu || mol

2004-12-23 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:06 AM, Cristo Saulo Bolaños Trujillo wrote: > has any one tried to emulate skype for linux i386 under ppc ? i've tried one or two month ago with qemu-i386 , i've got lots of segfaults. maybe it works emulating a whole i386.. luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to sup

Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:04:27AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 07:23 schrieb Sven Luther: > > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > > While looking for the way to set the correct subarch, I found that in > > > base-installer's postinst, line 438 the CPU variable is filled

Re: Installing on a Dual CPU G5 Powermac?

2004-12-23 Thread shyamal
"Paddy" == Paddy de Búrca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paddy> I also have a Gual G5 which I have installed with Sarge Paddy> [.] Paddy> Already in September I could install Debain - so it is Paddy> possible. Hi Paddy, Did you install with the power4 kernel? Any

Re: Installing on a Dual CPU G5 Powermac?

2004-12-23 Thread shyamal
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there a way to use a rescue kernel (in this case the Gentoo >> kernel booted from a Mac HD using OpenFirmware) to start the >> d-i on the Sarge CD? (My guess is not, but then I'm not very >> familiar with internals of d-i)

Re: Skype & qemu || mol

2004-12-23 Thread david
mol runs osx fine on my g3/400 pismo d On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 00:06 +, Cristo Saulo Bolaños Trujillo wrote: > Hello, > > has any one tried to emulate skype for linux i386 under ppc ? Or used > mol to run Mac OS X native version ? > > Thanks. > >

Skype & qemu || mol

2004-12-23 Thread Cristo Saulo Bolaños Trujillo
Hello, has any one tried to emulate skype for linux i386 under ppc ? Or used mol to run Mac OS X native version ? Thanks.

Re: MLton on PowerPC: voltaire's Christmas wish?

2004-12-23 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:38:20PM -0500, Adam Goode wrote: > The price of this upgrade is $30. > http://dealram.com/prices/15/256MB.html > I will match funds with someone who puts in $15! :) I'll match you for $15 too. :-) There's another anonymous person who said they'd donate also, so that is $

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 23, 2004, at 1:51 PM, vinai wrote: Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: 2) It automatically configures the network using DHCP, which i would rather NOT do, and When I used the old installer, you had the choice to specify dhcp or a static IP. I'm surprised this option was removed ... The

Re: Qemu and i386 Software on an iBook

2004-12-23 Thread Joerg Sommer
Roland Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I would like to run the package MuPAD/Scilab on my iBook-Linux-Box. > Unfortunately the producer of MuPAD doesn't distribute binaries for > powerpc linux; but there is a i386 binary package. > > Can I use Qemu in order to run the MuPAD i386 bina

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-23 Thread vinai
> Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: > > 2) It automatically configures the network using DHCP, which i would > rather NOT do, and When I used the old installer, you had the choice to specify dhcp or a static IP. I'm surprised this option was removed ... > 3) the partitioning step should warn you t

Re: MLton on PowerPC: voltaire's Christmas wish?

2004-12-23 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Le Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:38:20PM -0500, Adam Goode écrivait/wrote: > The price of this upgrade is $30. > > http://dealram.com/prices/15/256MB.html > > I will match funds with someone who puts in $15! :) > > > > Adam > > > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:21 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > On W

Re: MLton on PowerPC: voltaire's Christmas wish?

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Goode
The price of this upgrade is $30. http://dealram.com/prices/15/256MB.html I will match funds with someone who puts in $15! :) Adam On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:21 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:42:01AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > > Well, having more RAM is a

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: On the d-i rc2 sarge netinstall iso the are two files: initrd.gz and vmlinux (look in /install/powerpc) Copy those to your Linux Kernels folder on the Mac side and away you go. Just remember to copy the installed initrd.gz and vmlinux files to

Black Screen/Boot Prompt - On Woody Install - PowerBook 3400c

2004-12-23 Thread Mike Harleman
I know this must have happened to someone else, but after installing Woody by way of floppies and cd as well as net install the following happens: Powerbook 3400c - installing Woody Install smooth Reboot - not so smooth and will not boot from floppy        Computer screen is black on black a

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: On (22/12/04 12:56), vinai wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: I want to install sarge in my Old-World Mac 9500. I know I need to use BootX, and that I should copy linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz into the "Linux Kernels

Re: Installing on a Dual CPU G5 Powermac?

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:13:46AM -0500, John Koskie wrote: > Try the net install disk...I have a 2.0 GHz dual G5 desk top and it > works on that. I used "expert-power4". However, my machine is a few > months old, and you may have a newer cpu. As evidence, I tried the > install disk on a new imac

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 23:25 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > given the variety of hardware would it be worth splitting up snd-powermac? > > how easily can code be used from darwin? Code cannot be copied "as-is" but it's definitely a good source of informations. Also, the various codec chips used on

Re: Hard Drive light

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Thanks for your help. > > I could not find how to attach the sys entry to the ide interface, > but now, it is attached to the bus owning the IDE, either macio or pci > according > to which 'attach' function is called. On my ibook, it is macio and I have no > way to test > if the pci entr

Xnest and remote gnome-session

2004-12-23 Thread froinds
Hi I have a linux box running Debian and a G5. From the G5 I'd like to open a gnome-session to the linux machine in a separate window using xnest. How could I do that?

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

2004-12-23 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:48, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > > > [snip...] > > > > > > > > [snip...] > >

Re: Installing on a Dual CPU G5 Powermac?

2004-12-23 Thread John Koskie
Try the net install disk...I have a 2.0 GHz dual G5 desk top and it works on that. I used "expert-power4". However, my machine is a few months old, and you may have a newer cpu. As evidence, I tried the install disk on a new imac G5 and got the symptoms you describe. I was able to get around it b

Re: Hard Drive light

2004-12-23 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt, on Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:00:43 +0100, > >> I chose macio since I had the struct device pointer easily accessible in >> pmac.c. > >Not all laptops have the IDE under macio though ... some have it under a >PCI node. It should be per-controller ideally... (some mac

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
given the variety of hardware would it be worth splitting up snd-powermac? how easily can code be used from darwin? Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:15 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: the pmac driver has issues on my imac dv, it works but alas it doesnt know what to

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > > [snip...] > > > > > > [snip...] > > > > > > > A few hexdump later > > > > > > > > All seems fine in

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:55:02AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 07:25 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:13PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > This patch (whic

Re: MLton on PowerPC: voltaire's Christmas wish?

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:42:01AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > Well, having more RAM is always nice, but IMHO there's something wrong with > > MLton when it needs that much RAM for building. > > It's a whole-program optimizing compiler... > That means it analyzes all of the source code at

Re: Installing on a Dual CPU G5 Powermac?

2004-12-23 Thread Paddy de Búrca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaymal, I also have a Gual G5 which I have installed with Sarge (download on 29/9/2004). After some errors on my part, Debian installed perfectly. I then compiled my own 2.6.9 kernel and installed that. With that I installed a cross compiler and

Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-23 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 07:23 schrieb Sven Luther: [...] > > While looking for the way to set the correct subarch, I found that in > > base-installer's postinst, line 438 the CPU variable is filled by: > > > > CPU=`grep '^cpu[[:space:]]*:' /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/^ *//; > >

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:15 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > the pmac driver has issues on my imac dv, it works but alas > it doesnt know what to do when plugging in headphones > not to mention lack of input sensors for my ibook (clamshell) > > i realise though that if you cant get specs and no one >

Re: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-23 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 23.12.2004 um 07:23 schrieb Sven Luther: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:27:11PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 14:24 schrieb Colin Watson: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: I've prepared a partman-prep package which should add support

Kernel compile errors - g3 wallstreet 2.6.8 kernel

2004-12-23 Thread iceblaze
I have a g3 wallstreet 266mhz and trying to compile my own 2.6.8 kernel i recieve the following: include/linux/kdev_t.h: In function `old_decode_dev': include/linux/kdev_t.h:34: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. Se

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 07:25 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:13PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > This patch (which will be send upstream separately by the Alsa folks) > > > fixes > > > an sign

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 01:36 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Nice to know that work is being done on the pmac ALSA driver. :) > > However, I still cannot get ALSA to work at all on this iMac's Burgundy: > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=306 > > The old OSS driver still

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:13PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > This patch (which will be send upstream separately by the Alsa folks) fixes > > an signed vs. unsigned char problem in Alsa which was the cause of the Oops

Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:27:11PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 14:24 schrieb Colin Watson: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > > I've prepared a partman-prep package which should add support for PPC > > > PReP boot partitions t

Re: Installing on a Dual CPU G5 Powermac?

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:27:29PM -0800, shyamal wrote: > > "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> I'd be happy to help where I can if something needs testing on > >> a dual G5. > > Sven> [ ...lots of good advice which is well taken by me... ] > > S