Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread bibinix
Thanks for the useful information. It is the first time I got such a detailed and nice answer in a newsgroup. I will try to put (as soon as my wife goes in holyday) your suggestion into practice, I hope I will do good use of them. I am planning to upgrade to sarge and install xfce on the machine,

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread brian
hi, like Sven says don't forget to copy your new kernel back to macos partition so bootx can find it ! also take care you have security update in your sources.list and then you should get the last kernel of sarge which is 2.6.8-3 powerpc. I think you are safe upgradeing from woody to sarge, if y

wrong hdaX thing as / in /etc/fstab but maybe not debian's fault

2007-07-25 Thread 2g
when i was preparing to ask something @ jack-dev-ml found a weird thing going on with 2 debians on my PPC(iBookG4) machine one is stable and another is unstable stable is on hda6 and unstable is on hda5 but when doing df -h both said debian-stable: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mou

Monitoring HD activity with the PMU LED

2007-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
FYI, as of linux-image-2.6.22-1-powerpc, CONFIG_ADB_PMU_LED is enabled, so this can be enabled at runtime by writing 'ide-disk' into class/leds/pmu-front-led/trigger, e.g. via sysfsutil's /etc/sysfs.conf. BTW, does anyone happen to know whether CONFIG_ADB_PMU_LED would work in the powerpc64 kerne

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:45:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black > model without USB ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a > distro-upgrade with apt-get when the process signalised that I have to > up

Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread bibinix
I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black model without USB ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a distro-upgrade with apt-get when the process signalised that I have to upgrade also the kernel (I have the version 2.4). The command : apt-cache se

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:21:36AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, > > when the ban started. > > [etc, etc, etc] > > The ban on -powerpc was lifted because of numerous commen

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Hi Sven > > I already asked you off list to stop your rants about Debian politics on > this list and I do so again for one last time on list. Indeed, so please, all, let's stop this thread now, and participate in the other threa

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:23:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You are joking, right ? Frans did not leave anything, he still rules > > unopposed on d-i. > [...] > > Whoah, whoah, whoah, take it somewhere else. This is exactly why the > ban was put i

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:21:36AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, > > when the ban started. > > [etc, etc, etc] > > The ban on -powerpc was lifted because of numerous commen

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Sven I already asked you off list to stop your rants about Debian politics on this list and I do so again for one last time on list. If you are unable to restrict yourself to purely technical posts then I will ask the listmasters to reinstall the ban. Please accept that others in Debian don'

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:06:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Selon Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:57:18AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > > But... > > > Sven, I think it would be better to let the story rest in peace and to go > > > on > > > and look

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Greg Trigg
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:05:41AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : In both cases, the main point is work force, people interested in contributing, and able to give some of their time for it. Hi Sven, I can test the installer on iMac G5 21' rev A when needed... Hav

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:49:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:05:41AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > > In both cases, the main point is work force, people interested in > > contributing, and able to give some of their time for it. > > Hi Sven, > > I can test th

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You are joking, right ? Frans did not leave anything, he still rules > unopposed on d-i. [...] Whoah, whoah, whoah, take it somewhere else. This is exactly why the ban was put in place previously and if it's going to start back all over again then it's g

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, > when the ban started. [etc, etc, etc] The ban on -powerpc was lifted because of numerous comments that you've helped people in the past with powerpc issues. Discussion abo

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:05:03AM +, Cord Beermann wrote: > Hallo! Du (Sven Luther) hast geschrieben: > > > Given that it was Frans Pop who started all this, that he was the one > > asking for my expulsion from debian (which debian's leadership agreed > > to), i have little hope. Already in t

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread benoar
Selon Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:57:18AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > But... > > Sven, I think it would be better to let the story rest in peace and to go on > > and look forward instead looking backward. Nobody can change what happened, > > but it will ma

Re: The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:05:41AM +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > In both cases, the main point is work force, people interested in > contributing, and able to give some of their time for it. Hi Sven, I can test the installer on iMac G5 21' rev A when needed... Have a nice day, -- Charles P

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Cord Beermann
Hallo! Du (Sven Luther) hast geschrieben: > Given that it was Frans Pop who started all this, that he was the one > asking for my expulsion from debian (which debian's leadership agreed > to), i have little hope. Already in the thread starting in : > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/07

The future of the debian/powerpc port ...

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, As promised, i start a fresh thread to discuss the future of the powerpc port. Just remembering a few relevant facts : - i was expulsed from debian on Frans Pop's request a few months ago, when the ban started. - i requested participation in this evening's d-i irc meeting to d

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:57:18AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:57:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > We just lifted the ban on Sven Luther on this list. > > Thanks, > > Yes, great! :) > > > > As you might see in the Archive of d-project the name of Sven is st