Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 08:41 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest > > > should > > > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the upcomin

Re: XGL powerbook 15"

2006-05-03 Thread ruben
At Thu, 4 May 2006 03:13:53 +0200, Federico Pistono wrote: > > configure:2420: g++ -O4 -march=pentium-m -mtune=powerpc -pipe > -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math conftest.c >&5 > cc1plus: error: invalid option 'arch=pentium-m' > > ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value='-O4 -march=pentium-m -mtune=powerpc -pip

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest should > > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the upcoming > > 2.6.17, right ? > > I don't remember when he fixed it precisel

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest should > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the upcoming > 2.6.17, right ? I don't remember when he fixed it precisely but I think 2.6.16 got it yes. > So, the basic plan is to have a -prep ARCH=ppc f

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:10:32AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:02 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > > Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and > > > >

Re: XGL powerbook 15"

2006-05-03 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 04 May 2006 03:20:08 +0200, Federico Pistono wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to build the cvs according to the guide in the site: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xgl If your PB has an Nvidia video card, there is no point in doing this, since the nv driver has no 3D capabilites wha

XGL powerbook 15"

2006-05-03 Thread Federico Pistono
Hi, I'm trying to build the cvs according to the guide in the site: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xgl but event the very first package, cairo, give me problems. $ export CFLAGS="-O4 -march=ppc -mtune=ppc -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" $ export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS Shoudl the ma

Re: 2.6.16-1 hyper logging

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Collins
Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2.6.16-1 is a bit too much logging: > kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 > kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: powermac/beep, Type: 18, Code: 2, Value: 0 > > Quite 20 lines per second ! Is there a var to change via

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:02 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and > > > > will > > > > probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to

2.6.16-1 hyper logging

2006-05-03 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Hi, 2.6.16-1 is a bit too much logging: kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c4/input, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: powermac/beep, Type: 18, Code: 2, Value: 0 Quite 20 lines per second ! Is there a var to change via /proc/sys or is it necessary to recompile the kernel wi

Using kernel 2.6.17-rc2

2006-05-03 Thread leandro noferini
Ciao a tutti, I am trying to use the kernel version as the subject, 2.6.17-rc2 with the patches to use the airport on an iBook G4 and I found some troubles with the sound and the sensors. Nothing of unexpected but I ask you: the new rc3 does resolv some of these problems? -- Ciao leandr

Problem with login

2006-05-03 Thread leandro noferini
Ciao a tutti, I have a problem with login: my password has an accented letter in it (I can't change easily because it's the same password to open the encrypted loopback with the home with libpam-mount). It worked until some upgrade ago but now it is no more accepted. I don't know where to add to

Re: powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again

2006-05-03 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/3/06, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, FYI, the daily sid_d-i CD builds are working again for powerpc. Sorry for the long hiatus here! Among other things, those of you with tg3 network cards should be able to use these. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arc

Re: [RFC][Patch] Cirumvent appletouch fuzziness

2006-05-03 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
Stelian Pop wrote: > Very rarely the appletouch driver stops working completly (sometimes > after a resume from suspend to ram, sometimes for other unknown reason) > and I have to reload the module in order to make it work again. But this > happens just once per week (and I use the laptop daily for

2.6.17-rc3 (was: 2.6.17-rc2)

2006-05-03 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:19:47PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 00:06 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > Did a testrun of 2.6.17-rc2 on my PowerBook 5,6 today. Subsequent testrun with 2.6.17-rc3. > > Tried to answer all the make oldconfig questions in a sensible way

Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up

2006-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:02:10PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your work > > > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've set up miboot-enabled daily

Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up

2006-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:58:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Thanks a lot for your work > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go > > with my normal daily builds: > > > >

Re: [RFC][Patch] Cirumvent appletouch fuzziness

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Henkel
Hi, On 5/3/06, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure if this changes something but do you have all the Apple firmware updates installed ? Firmware updates? If these are automatically installed by Tiger's shiny software update function, then: yes. Otherwise: no idea. ;) Sven: Wh

Re: [RFC][Patch] Cirumvent appletouch fuzziness

2006-05-03 Thread Stelian Pop
Le mercredi 03 mai 2006 à 07:33 +0200, Johannes Berg a écrit : > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 +0200, Sven Henkel wrote: > > > Heh, yes :) But that's exactly my problem: xy_acc _should_ be all > > zeros when there's no finger on the touchpad, but from time to time > > some entries in it grow to valu

Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up

2006-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Thanks a lot for your work On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:11:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Hi, > > I've set up miboot-enabled daily builds of d-i powerpc floppies, to go > with my normal daily builds: > > http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ > > Thanks to Sven Luther fo

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will > > > probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do a > > > backport if something promising comes on. Not sure i will ha

Re: [PATCH] via-pmu: report powerbutton as proper input event

2006-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:30:58PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > No. I don't see why his posting here should be something development > > > *only* related. The patch obviously can be *used* and tested. I'm glad > > > he posted it here: IINM it's a ppc patch, and I have good use for it > > > f

Re: installation notes/probs

2006-05-03 Thread Wouter Amerijckx
The CPU in your iBook G4 is a 32bit processor, so you cannot boot a 64bit kernel. Use manual partitioning, it's there iirc. Then choose the mount points for the linux partitions you've made, select to format them, make sure the boot flag is selected for the partition that'll contain /boot (so / or

powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again

2006-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
Hi, FYI, the daily sid_d-i CD builds are working again for powerpc. Sorry for the long hiatus here! Among other things, those of you with tg3 network cards should be able to use these. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Cheers, -- Colin Watson