Re: Setup WOL (Wake On LAN) on PPC (MacMiniG4)

2010-09-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:49:35PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > How can I test this ? I tried to suspend-to-ram using: > > $ sudo apt-get install uswsusp > $ sudo s2ram > Switching from vt7 to vt1 > s2ram_do: No such device > switching back to vt7 > > with: > > $ sudo s2ram -n > >

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 01:48 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: [...] > > I could change linux-base.postinst to avoid adding space between name, > > '=' and value when updating the configuration but it seems simple enough > > to make ybin accept that too. > > Yes, it's simple. And I think you can't avoid

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Ben, Le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à 22:11 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > The value of the kernel (or rather initramfs) root parameter generally > does need to include an '=' character and linux-base.postinst is correct > to use it. It must then double-quote the value in yaboot.conf so that >

Re: (Debian powerpcspe install

2010-09-19 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Sergei Poselenov | 2010-09-18 14:27:40 [+0400]: >Hello again, Sebastian, Hello, >A question regarding the Debian installation to e500 system: >As I understand, standard Debian powerpc won't work on e500 because of >"lwsync" problem, right? Right. Every C++ program will throw SIGILL because libs

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-19 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Sergei Poselenov | 2010-09-18 11:44:01 [+0400]: >Thanks, but I'm looking for specific information - what instruction set >was used by gcc to build Debian binaries. > >It seems to me this information is not readily available... I can only >guess of gcc configuration - just defaults (-mcpu=powepc

Re: driver for video card Rage M3 AGP

2010-09-19 Thread Gunther Furtado
Em Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:35:59 +0100 abdelkader belahcene escreveu: > Hi, > I installed debian 5.06 on my Mac ibook g3, I had the same > problem, the interface is only on a portion of the screen (about 70% > x 70%) of the size of the screen. have you tried the tips and tricks from places

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 19, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: Hi, First, let me say that I'm glad to ear from you ! I think that other will agree too. Let me add my thanks and "welcome back" as well! Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 22:05 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 0

driver for video card Rage M3 AGP

2010-09-19 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I installed debian 5.06 on my Mac ibook g3, I had the same problem, the interface is only on a portion of the screen (about 70% x 70%) of the size of the screen. The screen is configured for 800x600, there is no another resolution, so I suppose I need another driver. here is the lspci

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, First, let me say that I'm glad to ear from you ! I think that other will agree too. Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 22:05 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:01:52PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > Then, updating yaboot to the latest known active development branch

Re: #580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.conf must be modified by something else

2010-09-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Benjamin Cama wrote: Hi, I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/yabootconfig .