Re: Powermac G5 won't boot headless?

2006-10-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 00:29 -0400, Alexandre Gauthier wrote: > Hi! > > I am planning on using a Dual PowerMac G5 as a server. I installed Debian > Stable and apt-pinned a few things, such as the kernel from Testing. > > All is well, until I realized that somehow, the machine apparently will NOT

Powermac G5 won't boot headless?

2006-10-10 Thread Alexandre Gauthier
Hi! I am planning on using a Dual PowerMac G5 as a server. I installed Debian Stable and apt-pinned a few things, such as the kernel from Testing. All is well, until I realized that somehow, the machine apparently will NOT boot headless, that is, if the monitor is not present... this is slightl

Re: linux-2.6: [powerpc] Please enable the amd74xx driver

2006-10-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:00:02AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > clone 391451 -1 > reassign -1 linux-2.6 > retitle -1 linux-2.6: [powerpc] Please enable the amd74xx driver > block 391451 with -1 > thanks > > > The on-board hard drive (40 GB Fujitsu MHT2040AS, 2.5", parallel ATA) is > > not detected.

Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again

2006-10-10 Thread Matthias Kirschner
Hi Gunther, * Gunther Furtado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 08:36:05 -0300]: > I am receiving a slightly different message: > > "No /dev/pmu found". Me, too: woodstock:~# /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd start Starting pbbuttonsd:ERROR: The object '/dev/pmu' doesn't exist. failed! > Everything seems

Re: zImage.prep on 2.6.18 & 2.6.19-rc1-git5

2006-10-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:42 +0200, Alexander Baldeck wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been trying to get an old Motorola Powerstack II working on Linux > for the past few days. Everything is working fine except for the fact > that I have to use a kernel 2.6.8 or earlier. As I'd like to run newer > ud

Re: synaptics PowerBook ?

2006-10-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:11 +0200, Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:51:18 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Any reason why this patch isn't submited upstream ? :) > > > > Ben. > > the patch actually isn't mine. > It has first been writte

zImage.prep on 2.6.18 & 2.6.19-rc1-git5

2006-10-10 Thread Alexander Baldeck
Hey all, I've been trying to get an old Motorola Powerstack II working on Linux for the past few days. Everything is working fine except for the fact that I have to use a kernel 2.6.8 or earlier. As I'd like to run newer udevs this is unfortunately an inacceptible state, no uevents and all.

Re: synaptics PowerBook ?

2006-10-10 Thread Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:51:18 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any reason why this patch isn't submited upstream ? :) > > Ben. the patch actually isn't mine. It has first been written by Luca Bigliardi but he could not find anyone willing to submit it because there was

Re: synaptics PowerBook ?

2006-10-10 Thread Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:51:18 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any reason why this patch isn't submited upstream ? :) > > Ben. the patch actually isn't mine. It has first been written by Luca Bigliardi but he could not find anyone willing to submit it because there was