Question about a package in experimental built but not present in the archive

2010-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, people. Please excuse my lack of knowledge about the buildd network, but I would like to use a package (forked-daapd) that is only present in the experimental section of the archive, but not present in binary form. In particular, I just saw that https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?ar

Re: booting gparted live cd

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Morris
Isn't parted now on the netinstall debian cd ? try checking advanced install, then load optional parted, then skip the rest of the install including partitioner just go into the shell option at the main menu, you should have parted there. I used parted a lot and gparted once only when I had to bec

Linux on PowerPC article on LWN

2010-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. I don't know if there is anybody out there that likes to read LWN (lwn.net), but they have an article about Linux on PowerPC and the fate of this architecture on this week's edition. http://lwn.net/Articles/395459/ The content is probably for subscribers only (but will be free'ed the n

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, Rick. (I am including the pkg-grub-devel list here, as it may be interesting to them). On Jul 14 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: > I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines. > > How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ? I wrote a summary of what I did some time ago: http

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:56:52PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: >Hi there. > >On Jul 14 2010, Gary wrote: >> Although the discussion is hopefully helpful, I'm not sure anyone's >> actually answered Richard's original question re where to find squeeze >> installer ISOs... http://cdimage.debian.org/cd

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines. How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ? Thanks! Rick On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: Also, it would be very nice if we had reports from people that tried to use GRUB2 on powerpc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On Jul 14 2010, Gary wrote: > Although the discussion is hopefully helpful, I'm not sure anyone's > actually answered Richard's original question re where to find squeeze > installer ISOs... http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds Oh, Gosh. You are right. Finding the "I want to

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Gary
Although the discussion is hopefully helpful, I'm not sure anyone's actually answered Richard's original question re where to find squeeze installer ISOs... http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On Jul 14 2010, Eraina and Richard jenkins wrote: > At the moment, I am running Ubuntu 10.04 ... which is nice (aside from > the absence of windfarm which is easily remedied) ... but I still > prefer Debian. That is great. One question, though, if you have the opportunity to reinstall s

bug 544418

2010-07-14 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hi, Are there any news about bug 544418? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544418 cheers, -- "...agora, só nos sobrou o futuro...", visto em www.manuchao.net Gunther Furtado Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil gunfurt...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@li

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2010-07-13 at 21:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On 06/28/2010 02:42 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > > We could, perhaps, offer two boot loaders for NewWorld ppc machines in > > Debian > > and phase out yaboot once we know that GRUB2 works fine. (That still leaves > > those users of miboot

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2010-07-13 at 20:27 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On my PB: > direct rendering: Yes > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 (RV350 4E50) 20090101 PowerPC/Altivec > TCL DRI2 > > But a vry slow foobillard Try turning off advanced effects in the foobillard display p

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * brian m. carlson [2010-07-14 04:04:57 CEST]: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:56:14AM +1000, Eraina and Richard jenkins wrote: > > I have tried to find a recent iso for debian "squeeze" without > > success. Debian 5.0.4 works well on this G5 machine, but many of the > > programs are qu