Re: Sound on a PowerBook5,7

2006-03-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:59 +0100, Børge Holen wrote: > Hi, > Has anyone had a successful encounter with this PB?dev iu > Yes alsa is set up (even tried OSS) > AWACS is found, udev has made devs, and the players are playing. > NO SOUND! > > PB5,7 17" running debian / testing Sound isn't supporte

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-06 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:01:23AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I guess we are using udev, but with a devfs-like naming scheme on top, right > >? > >I strongly believe that swim3.ko is not hotplug friendly, or that udev has > >some trouble with builtin modules, but i wo

Sound on a PowerBook5,7

2006-03-06 Thread Børge Holen
Hi, Has anyone had a successful encounter with this PB?dev iu Yes alsa is set up (even tried OSS) AWACS is found, udev has made devs, and the players are playing. NO SOUND! PB5,7 17" running debian / testing ps. how do I make the eject key work, cant seem to get any keystroke from it in xev.

Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac

2006-03-06 Thread vinai
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, petereasthope wrote: Currently, is there any way to install Debian on an oldworld Mac, other than by CD? You can use the BootX / Kernal / RAM Disk installer option. Worked the last time I tried, which admittedly, was a while ago. But with this and either CD or network, in

installing Debian on an oldworld Mac

2006-03-06 Thread petereasthope
I've just read ten recent messages about support for boot floppies and conclude that I should not expect them to work soon. Currently, is there any way to install Debian on an oldworld Mac, other than by CD? Suggestion If the daily server could have a concise and obvious notice specifying whet

Re: compile kernel for miboot to boot directly without MacOS

2006-03-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:34:33PM +0100, miguel wrote: > Hi, > Recently I got an OldWorld Beige G3 (266 Mhz, Gossamer, OpenFirmware > 2.0f1,scsi 4Gb disk...). It had MacOS9.2 installed on. > With many problems (I was totally newbie on powerpc), I got Debian > installed booting the installer wit

Re: iMac G5/iSight (12,1) Status?

2006-03-06 Thread Percy Zahl
On Mar 4, 2006, at 12:21 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:38 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote: Hi! I am just curious about any recent news related to the support of the 12,1 iMac, especially Windfarm support and Video/Framebuffer & X11. Nothing yet. I don't know at this point

compile kernel for miboot to boot directly without MacOS

2006-03-06 Thread miguel
Hi, Recently I got an OldWorld Beige G3 (266 Mhz, Gossamer, OpenFirmware 2.0f1,scsi 4Gb disk...). It had MacOS9.2 installed on. With many problems (I was totally newbie on powerpc), I got Debian installed booting the installer with BootX (the Sarge floppy disks didn't work) on a second scsi di

Re: mouseemu on powerbook5,8

2006-03-06 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 23:06 +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: > mouseemu needs to handle disappearing event devices gracefully. > > > Does this seem OK? Yes. The same will happen if you unplug a USB mouse :) johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: debian modem powerpc

2006-03-06 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:50 +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > Any idea if it is the same as it was on powerBook5,2 ? No idea. If it was, then some MotorolaSM56K extension would be loaded in OSX. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: implicit declaration of bus_to_virt (sbp2.c) 2.6.15-7 ppc64 buildd log

2006-03-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:31:20AM -0500, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > Folks > > In the buildd log > > > http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/buildd-logs/linux-2.6_2.6.15-7_ppc64.log > > sbp2.c is showing up with 'bus_to_virt' being implicitly defined: > > drivers/ieee1

implicit declaration of bus_to_virt (sbp2.c) 2.6.15-7 ppc64 buildd log

2006-03-06 Thread Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
Folks In the buildd log http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/buildd-logs/linux-2.6_2.6.15-7_ppc64.log sbp2.c is showing up with 'bus_to_virt' being implicitly defined: drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c:1064: warning: implicit declaration of function 'bus_to_virt' what is keeping the build of s

Re: Status of miBoot in Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:27:40AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: Ok. But like said, thanks to Piotr, we have a reverse engineered spec of the boot block, and can do a clean-room reimplementation. The spec of the boot-block structure has always

Re: Status of miBoot in Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:43 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:01:05AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: We use an alioth project with a svn repo and a mailing list to hold commit logs. We have there two branches, the stable branch which you control, and a more free-working devel br

Re: Status of miBoot in Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:27:40AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > >Ok. But like said, thanks to Piotr, we have a reverse engineered spec > >of the > >boot block, and can do a clean-room reimplementation. > > The spec of the boot-block structure has always been publicly > available. The boot-

Re: Xserve hd device names

2006-03-06 Thread Jan Schukat
(didn't have it on the list at first) But to the Xserve it isn't a firewire HD, to the Xserve it is a normal SATA disk (or maybe even a scsi disk, that is what I'm not sure of, but there certainly isn't any fire-wire in the middle of it, that would be pretty stupid to use firewire for internal H

Re: Status of miBoot in Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:01:05AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > >We use an alioth project with a svn repo and a mailing list to hold > >commit > >logs. We have there two branches, the stable branch which you control, > >and a > >more free-working devel branch where more adventurous patche

Re: Status of miBoot in Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:45:33AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Sven Luther wrote: have only now noticed that you have a Debian package for miBoot, and that it is based on a very early release. I have put forth a

Re: Status of miBoot in Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:45:33AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Sven Luther wrote: > >>have only now noticed that you have a Debian package for miBoot, and > >>that it is based on a very early release. I have put forth a proposal > > > >Well, later version are kno

Re: Status of miBoot in Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:42:55PM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: Please forgive me for trying to start a discussion off any mailing list, but the Debian lists are rather high-traffic for my tastes. I Well, nothing forces you to read it, pleas

Re: debian modem powerpc

2006-03-06 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 3/3/06, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:30 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > My powerbook (PowerBook5,5) has no USB modem. IIRC the modem hangs off > > some I2C bus. There's no Linux driver for it. > > I2S actually. I'm trying to reverse engineer the one I h

Re: mozilla-mplayer does not show video

2006-03-06 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:47:27PM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: [..snip..] > Another issue: I have PowerBook5,4 which is supposed to have altivec. > However, mplayer-g4 has problems (strange blocks in videos, etc) while > mplayer-powerpc works fine. I am just curious why this happens... Which mplaye