PowerMac beige G3 - test of [Re: G3 (or other non-altivec machines) testers sought]

2007-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
007 Jan 21 09:10:17 UTC, downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d- i/20070121-1/powerpc/iso-cd/ I did a default install. When it came to running "tasksel" I chose the "desktop" and "standard" tasks. It installed everything pretty

performa 6400/200 - installation doesn't recognize cdrom

2007-01-21 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
Are there any people who successfully installed Debian on 6400/200? I finally succeeded in booting using miboot floppies (no other kind worked), the drivers copy well, it'd seem, but the cdrom doesn't get recognized. Is there any particular cdrom I should download that would work? I cannot use net

Re: Bug#407671: Missing CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT_LEGACY breaks backlight control

2007-01-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > severity 407671 wishlist > > thanks > > > The kernel developers didn't remove the ancient backlight code and > installed IOC_GRAB_BACKLIGHT instead. With this ioctl a user space > daemon can switch off the kernel backlight keys code and get full > control over it. Unfortunately CONFIG_PMAC_BACK