Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-20 Thread Harold Johnson
Hi Brian,I appreciate your response, but I'm not quite certain about what you're driving at.  Do you need a kernel or something?  I've been able to upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper on my Wallstreet PowerBook, and it's using kernel 2.6.15-26, I believe.  I'll have to confirm that the next time I look.  I h

Fwd: Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-20 Thread brian
--- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:03:36 -0700 (PDT) > From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on > OldWorld PowerPC Mac > To: Harold Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > where we resumed this thread a few days ago, this > was exactly

Regression in sleep code for PowerBook5,2

2006-08-20 Thread Eddy Petrişor
Hello, I have started to experinence lock-ups since the upgrade to the latest official Debian Sid kernel for powerpc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ LANG=C apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc linux-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc: Installed: 2.6.17-6 Candidate: 2.6.17-6 Version table: *** 2.6.17-6 0

Re: [PATCH] no-execute -- please test

2006-08-20 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 8/14/06, Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Albert Cahalan writes: > This kernel patch implements no-execute protection (like x86 "NX bit") > for the Mac G2, Mac G3, Mac G4, and other systems running 32-bit > PowerPC processors in the 6xx, 7xx, and 7xxx families. I'd be interested in

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-20 Thread Harold Johnson
Oh, and since I forgot to mention it, the kernel version I currently (at this moment) have installed is 2.6.12-9; that's after simply installing Breezy.  Once I upgrade to Dapper again, I'll be using whatever version that is -- or I'll jump to Debian and do the same.  I'll try to remember to post t