Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:32:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Do we already have a bug against udev to have the above line per default, > > > or > > > otherwise finally fix this issue ?

SIGSEGV on kdmgreet after dist-upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Greetings, I have been using Sarge for the last couple of months without incident, however after a dist-upgrade this morning i was left with a non-functioning kdm... when it loads i get a KDE-style error message (SIGSEGV) and kdm quits... i am able to start KDE via XDM, but my font's are not rend

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:32:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Do we already have a bug against udev to have the above line per default, or > > otherwise finally fix this issue ? > > There were some objections to it the last time it

Re: No sound: Deb Sarge on G4 iMac

2005-01-08 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:39:21AM -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote: > But I must have a config prob somewhere, because I have zero sound in > the system. Start a music CD & I can tell from the player that it is > being played--but nada on sound. I can't even ring the system bell. For the audio CD, yo

Re: No sound: Deb Sarge on G4 iMac (Addendum)

2005-01-08 Thread Harvey Ussery
Harvey Ussery wrote: Have just started with Debian--Sarge on a G4 iMac. Though I've been using Linux several years, have never dealt w sound config issues. However, based on all resources I have to read and a lot of googling, I'm pretty sure I have all the tools in place for sound--alsa & co

aptitude does not show new packages

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi, I now this is not ppc specific, but maybe somebody can give me a short answer. Recently I had a crash of my system and got some scrambled files. Among them was one of the aptitude files from a recent update. I think it was /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. Since I had no backup of that file I

No sound: Deb Sarge on G4 iMac

2005-01-08 Thread Harvey Ussery
Have just started with Debian--Sarge on a G4 iMac. Though I've been using Linux several years, have never dealt w sound config issues. However, based on all resources I have to read and a lot of googling, I'm pretty sure I have all the tools in place for sound--alsa & company. cat /etc/modul

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Harvey Ussery
Brad Boyer wrote: Just for completeness, I'll note that the PMU has very little to do with sound or video as implied in previous posts. It's best for people not to get more confused than already happens. That's right, as I discovered when correcting the error message re /dev/pmu. O

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Harvey Ussery
Matt Weber wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:04 -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote: I recently reinstalled Sarge PPC on a G4 iMac. Each time I boot up now, I get an error warning: "Error: Wrong permission for 'dev/pmu' device" I had this problem also. If I remember correctly it is a kn

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:32:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Do we already have a bug against udev to have the above line per default, or > > otherwise finally fix this issue ? > > There were some objections to it the last time it

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:32:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Do we already have a bug against udev to have the above line per default, or > otherwise finally fix this issue ? There were some objections to it the last time it was mentioned. I believe there were some questions about it being a ba

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:17:46PM -0800, Matt Weber wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:04 -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote: > > I recently reinstalled Sarge PPC on a G4 iMac. Each time I boot up now, > > I get an error warning: > > > > "Error: Wrong permission for 'dev/pmu' device" > > > > I've trac