Re: Compiling 2.6.16 kernel for ppc

2006-03-20 Thread Adam Done
Adam Done wrote: >I have been trying today to compile a vanilla 2.6.16 kernel direct from >kernel.org and every time I get the same errors at the very end. > >if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F >System.map -b /usr/src/linux/ debian/tmp-image -r 2.6.16.ppc.pb1

Compiling 2.6.16 kernel for ppc

2006-03-20 Thread Adam Done
I have been trying today to compile a vanilla 2.6.16 kernel direct from kernel.org and every time I get the same errors at the very end. if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b /usr/src/linux/ debian/tmp-image -r 2.6.16.ppc.pb1; fi WARNING:

RE: Recompile Kernel

2006-03-20 Thread Jason Gauthier
> > I think you have just chosen the wrong one. > > > Hope, that it helps, > You're absolutely right! In fact, only compiling i386 binaries, I had no idea. :) But, I cannot get any kernel to boot that is not stock. I tried the latest kernel, but after failed attempts, downloaded the debia

Re: GRUB for powerpc

2006-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:16:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Hopefully once it's got the same amount of polish as the i386 port, >> and the setup scripts are fixed up for easy installation and >> integration with OpenFirmware, it will be a good candidat

Re: Recompile Kernel

2006-03-20 Thread Dieter Schuster
Hey, Am So, den 19 März 2006, schrieb Jason Gauthier: > I recompiled a kernel the other night, and modified quik.conf to allow > me to boot it. > But, when I did I received an error about the file format not being > valid: > > /boot/vmlinux-test: unknown image format > > So, After it booted,

Re: GRUB for powerpc

2006-03-20 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:16:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Hopefully once it's got the same amount of polish as the i386 port, > and the setup scripts are fixed up for easy installation and > integration with OpenFirmware, it will be a good candidate to > replace yaboot. Is it supposed to work

Re: GRUB for powerpc

2006-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:50:23 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> Hopefully once it's got the same amount of polish as >> the i386 port, and the setup scripts are fixed up for easy installation >> and integration with OpenFirmware, it will be a good candidat

Re: Power saving techniques

2006-03-20 Thread Mich Lanners
On 20 Mar, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: >> >> When it goes down, you can try to recalibrate your battery: let the >> computer run until the battery shuts it down, with no pmud or >> pbbuttonsd running to keep you from doing that. > > What should happen to the bat

Re: Power saving techniques

2006-03-20 Thread T. M.
1) Does my PowerBook support cpu scaling? How do I enable it? Can I even make it run at 500Mhz or so? I think it runs at either half-speed or full speed. You need to enable cpufreq scaling in the kernel. Do I have to recompile kernel? How do I enable cpufreq scaling in the kernel? No, one is

Re: GRUB for powerpc

2006-03-20 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:50:23 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Hopefully once it's got the same amount of polish as > the i386 port, and the setup scripts are fixed up for easy installation > and integration with OpenFirmware, it will be a good candidate to replace > yaboot. Can you post some kind of q

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Simon Vallet
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My recommendation is boot floppies > from woody and boot the installed system with quik. Thats how I > installed o

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, > > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My recommendation is boot floppies > > fro

kernel-2.6.16 oopses booting

2006-03-20 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
Hi folks! Just saw 2.6.16 was out and decide to give it a try. I copied mi .config from 2.6.15.6, did a 'make oldconfig' and after answering some questions I issued a 'make-kpkg kernel-image'. Compilation went smooth and I obtained linux-image-2.6.15.6_pbook.1_powerpc.deb. My gcc version is 4.0.3

Re: X protocol errors

2006-03-20 Thread Otto Maddox
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:12:18 +0100, "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 21:04 +, Otto Maddox wrote: > > Every single X application crashes with an error message like this: > > > > X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol > > request 38

GRUB for powerpc

2006-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, As you might know, GRUB version 2 will support powerpc in addition to ix86 systems. The next release of the grub2 package in Debian should have initial support for powerpc. In the meantime, the latest release is available here: http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/grub-1.93.tar.gz and som

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:28:55PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (17/03/06 09:37), Nelson Castillo wrote: > > A user said she will bring a Macintosh Performa 6400/180 with > > 16MB RAM [1] to the installfest[2]. > > > > Will the sarge installer work with only 16 MB of RAM? No. > > I would lik

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/03/06 09:37), Nelson Castillo wrote: > A user said she will bring a Macintosh Performa 6400/180 with > 16MB RAM [1] to the installfest[2]. > > Will the sarge installer work with only 16 MB of RAM? > > I would like to know whether I can manage to install sarge > there. > > I'm a little con

Re: Power saving techniques

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > > > I've tried installing cpudyn and cpufreq but I don't > > understand how to configure it and understand if it's actually > > working. Do I need both cpufreq and cpudyn? > > No, one is enough. There's also powernowd, which I have used for over a year without a single hiccup. At least one

Re: Debian MacOldWorld installation

2006-03-20 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome Le Saux wrote: > > The old power mac floppy driver doesn't work in the 2.6 kernel series. > I've been trying to find the time to help fix it. In the meantime, if > you can keep a small Mac OS partition around - you can use BootX pl

Re: Power saving techniques

2006-03-20 Thread pasca
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:47:02PM +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: > Hi, > > [...] > > When it goes down, you can try to recalibrate your battery: let the > computer run until the battery shuts it down, with no pmud or pbbuttonsd > running to keep you from doing that. What should happen to the battery

Re: Install Sarge on an embedded PowerPC

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:35:52AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hello all > > I've got myself an embedded powerpc platform (kurobox) and I'd like to > install Sarge on it. My problem is - the board doesn't boot from CD, the > bootloader is proprietary and I cannot load initrd... So, AFA