Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-19 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 06:59:08PM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > > > My main gripe as I have said before here is that there are no > > G4-Altivec optimized binary packages Debian based to be found > > anywhere. This is not likely to change. Packag

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-19 Thread Brian Morris
Need a place to upload/download, I think I know how to build optimized packages but I don't know how to built a debian style repository, that is something people could add to /etc/apt/sources.list. If you wanted to try building web browser that would be cool. I am planning to do some stuff for my

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Risto Suominen
Thank you, Rick, The 'disagrees about version of symbol...'s are dmesg is probably not a problem, as long as we don't need the midi stuff. The cause is my package lacking the midi modules. 2010/12/19, Rick Thomas : > With the blacklist reversed (see below for output of lsmod) > > With the externa

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 19, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Son Dez 19 18:26:04 +0100 2010: Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.442851] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_register Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.455570] snd

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Son Dez 19 18:26:04 +0100 2010: > Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.442851] snd_rawmidi: disagrees > about version of symbol snd_info_register > Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.455570] snd_rawmidi: Unknown > symbol snd_info_register This l

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
With the blacklist reversed (see below for output of lsmod) With the external speakers plugged in, the grateful dead have left the theater (no sound). Running alsamixer showed: Card: SoundByLayout Chip: SoundByLayout Master: OO 80<>80 Headphone: MM Headphone D: OO Headphone D: OO Speakers: MM A

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I don't know if it's important, but it's worth noting that the following messages appear in syslog: Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.442851] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_register Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.455570] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol s

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Sorry, I hit send too soon. This is with the blacklist for snd-aoa and snd-powermac installed in /etc/modules. I'll report in a few minutes on what happens with the blacklist reversed. Rick On 12/19/10 12:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With your patch installed and my external speakers (I don't hav

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
With your patch installed and my external speakers (I don't have a headphone set) plugged into the headphone jack on the back panel of the Powermac3,4 (G4 Silver), I downloaded http://www.archive.org/download/gd1977-05-08.shure57.stevenson.29303.flac16/gd1977-05-08d01t02_vbr.mp3 to my desktop (s

parted: 512 vs 2048 bytes block size dilemma

2010-12-19 Thread Milan Kupcevic
summary 332227 51 summary 350372 34 summary 352914 178 thanks On 12/16/2010 02:44 AM, Frank Fegert wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:34:52PM -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > >> At one point yaboot-installer code calls >> >> /usr/lib/partconf/find-partitions --flag prep >> >> which is supposed

parted: 512 vs 2048 bytes block size dilemma

2010-12-19 Thread Milan Kupcevic
Debian bugs #332227, #350372 and #352914 are reported after 'No hard disks were found which have an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition' error which is returned by yaboot-installer while installing on a VIOS virtual drive in an IBM LPAR. Error message is in fact misleading. Lets discuss this issue in bug #

Bug#603986: qgis crashes on startup on PowerPC

2010-12-19 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi ppc porters, Forwarded from Bug#603986, > tags 603986 + help > thanks > > I personally have not access to a PPC to do any trial, and using > qgis in remote would be a pain, I guess. It seems Heisenbug Principle > in this case applies, too. Maybe we should remove qgis for this > arch and wait s