Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Small
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... > I currently use grub on the x86 and am very happy with it. Does Grub 2 > work on PPC? Previously it hasn't; I'm not sure what the difference is > between them (other than where their configs go). > Doug. It worked on my G4 PowerMac last time I tried it. One of th

Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:22:50PM -0400, Mike Small wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > power goes back out during ext2/3 check/boot. In short, I like JFS. > > The yaboot docs say that the partition its conf points to can be ext2/3, > > XFS, or ReiserFS. > > Is there any word on JFS suppo

Re: my etch hard drive became unavailable

2006-07-19 Thread brian
tried installing last night of daily build debian-testing-powerpc-net.iso it was probably not a good idea, definitely did not work here (pismo w/g4 upgrade). installation report filed. not sure what to do. could do what i did before which is install sarge and upgrade. or wait and try again w

Re: New I2C and machine probing method

2006-07-19 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Matthias, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:19:30 +0200 > Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Damn, I didn't removed my debugging stuff and so the program used a > wrong device tree path. Sorry for that. Replace line % ./of_test Probing machine...

Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Small
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On my x86 computers, I've been using JFS for all my partitions: we're in > the country, power can go out. The comparisions showed that JFS uses > less processor power than ReiserFS and XFS. I've had failures if the > power goes back out during ext2/3 check/boot. In s

Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The yaboot docs say that the partition its conf points to can be ext2/3, > XFS, or ReiserFS. As a workaround, you could just use a small ext2 /boot partition containing the kernel and all that. johannes signature.asc Description:

yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread dtutty
On my x86 computers, I've been using JFS for all my partitions: we're in the country, power can go out. The comparisions showed that JFS uses less processor power than ReiserFS and XFS. I've had failures if the power goes back out during ext2/3 check/boot. In short, I like JFS. The yaboot docs

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:59:48PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:21:13AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > Hi Guido! > > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:20:24AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > > > I can successfully use the external vga out, however the laptop LCD is

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:21:13AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > Hi Guido! > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:20:24AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > > I can successfully use the external vga out, however the laptop LCD is not > > > usable meanwhile. Note that you have to boot with the external v

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:07:02AM -0400, Guy Yasko wrote: > On 19 Jul 2006, Guido Guenther said: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:03:10PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 06:19:33PM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: > > > > I can successfully use the external vga o

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Lawrence Li
hi all: I'm trying to figure out how to use external display on my iBook G3 (late 2001) / Debian, so it's great to see this thread going on. The display I have is an LG L194WT, which is sold only in Asia I think. As the "W" in the model suggests, it's a widescreen LCD (16:9), with a recommended

Re: New I2C and machine probing method

2006-07-19 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:19:30 +0200 Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Damn, I didn't removed my debugging stuff and so the program used a wrong device tree path. Sorry for that. Replace line #define OFBASE "./device-tree" with line #define OFBASE "/proc/device-tree" The at

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 09:07 -0400, Guy Yasko wrote: > I can only suspend-to-disk and wake up > once. My G4 12" (it's the 2005.2 version, i.e., PB 6,8) will hang on > the second wake up call. Mine is also a 6,8, and works fine with swsusp2 applied to 2.6.17-rc3. I couldn't get it to work with the

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
[I'm dropping personal CCs since this is not subject-related] On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:07:02AM -0400, Guy Yasko wrote: > That makes sense. However, I can only suspend-to-disk and wake up > once. My G4 12" (it's the 2005.2 version, i.e., PB 6,8) will hang on > the second wake up call. try with

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Guy Yasko
On 19 Jul 2006, Guido Guenther said: On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:03:10PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 06:19:33PM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I can successfully use the external vga out, however the laptop > > LCD is not usable meanwhile. Note that you hav

G4-12" and external Apple cinema display -- [was: xorg nv options]

2006-07-19 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El mié, 19-07-2006 a las 10:21 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi escribió: > Hi Guido! > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:20:24AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > > I can successfully use the external vga out, however the laptop LCD is not > > > usable meanwhile. Note that you have to boot with the external vg

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:03:10PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 06:19:33PM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I haven't been able to use an external monitor/beamer with this laptop > > > and xorg. Is it possible now (I have not tried it for a while). > > > > Th

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Hi Guido! On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:20:24AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > I can successfully use the external vga out, however the laptop LCD is not > > usable meanwhile. Note that you have to boot with the external vga adaptor > > plugged in. > Actually suspending to disk is enough. This (at

Re: Texmaker fails to build on arm

2006-07-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:22:44PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well the log to me looks like a g++ bug, or possibly something in libqt, > but probably the compiler. Too bad you can't tell which g++ version was > installed at the time of the compile on each architecture's buildd. Looking at t