Re: Bug#326220: libc6 2.3.5 ldconfig segfaults on powerpc oldworld

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:36:27AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Sep 04 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > Ok, are you saying that you managed to build miboot floppies using the > > old woody miboot floppies, > > Yes, I did. > > > (i think woody came with do-it-yourself-miboot stuff, not sure). > >

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-06 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/5/05, gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the ap is the base station in a cell and a gateway in a network ( a > transciver). > you are using eth0 because you are loading airport before sungem. if > sungem at all. > If you are doing a ifup eth0 you are not doing a auto but a manual > up. To clar

vga out nVidia g4 powerbook

2005-09-06 Thread Jeremiah Benham
So while playing around I got vga out to work on my nvidia based powerbook. I can't seem to get it to "clone" the display correctly though. If I try to display them at the same time the powerbook display looks awfully huge and very distorted while the external CRT monitor looks great. I have to

Re: New ghc6 needs manual bootstrapping for C++ ABI/libgmp3 transition.

2005-09-06 Thread LaMont Jones
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:28:10PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Because of the C++ ABI transition, ghc6 needs to be rebuild > against the new libgmp3c2. > To build it, follow the instruction in > debian/bootstrap-extracted. Done. Btw, if I'm silly enough to try to rebuild ghc6 using the newly-buil

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-06 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 05:20:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > there already seems to be *heaps* of reversed engineered information > about programming its chipset (from decompiled AP firmware). > > could be off assistance also. Seems like a few weeks ago a project started to write a driver bas

Re: swsusp2 with 2.6.13

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:04:54PM +0200, Alexander Strobl wrote: > hi all, > > after i realized suspend-to-ram does not work on powerbook i tried swsusp2. > > i patched the kernel witch the latest release and set the > supend-partition to: swap:/dev/hda4 > i started "hibernate" - error: "Suspend

swsusp2 with 2.6.13

2005-09-06 Thread Alexander Strobl
hi all, after i realized suspend-to-ram does not work on powerbook i tried swsusp2. i patched the kernel witch the latest release and set the supend-partition to: swap:/dev/hda4 i started "hibernate" - error: "Suspend failed, trying to recover...". (recovery does not work btw.) unloading every mo

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw > > is rock solid. The only trick is to plug in the disk _after_ Linux has > > booted. > > Ah, ... i never did that i plugged it in from startup (and was running the > ubuntu live cd even). it is a 1Ghz tibook (last tibo

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw > > > is rock solid. The only trick is to plug in the disk _after_ Linux has > > > booted. > > > > Ah, ... i never did that i plugged it in from startup

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire > > disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my > > powerbook, i failed miserably. > > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire > disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my > powerbook, i failed miserably. Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw is rock solid. The only trick is to