Re: Bug#606984: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2011-04-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Version: 1.85 Quoting Thomas Carlson (tcarl...@sharedcup.com): > I tried today's (4/13/11) Daily Build #5, that uses the installer build from > Sid > on my 533MHz PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) and guess what? The sound worked. I > was able to adjust the volume and set a sound theme. The correct

Re: Something that we don't want to happen to PowerPC on Debian

2011-04-13 Thread Brian Morris
I believe perhaps the greatest factor is are new products being made and expected in the near future. one I know about is the new NASA/GM Robonaut2 just arrived at the ISS uses 34 powerpc cpus. things in recent history included 75% of vehicles on the road using ppc processors, many NASA deep spac

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Carlson
I tried today's (4/13/11) Daily Build #5, that uses the installer build from Sid on my 533MHz PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) and guess what? The sound worked. I was able to adjust the volume and set a sound theme. The correct device for this machine, PowerMac Tumbler (Alsa mixer), had been installe

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On 04/10/2011 01:25 PM, Mandrantosoa 'Ndrianiaina wrote: > I'm on testing/sid til now, and I use my laptop as production tool, it's > quite stable, I've lost video hardware acceleration since 2.6.38 but the > computer is still usable (I don't really play games) I also don't play games o

Something that we don't want to happen to PowerPC on Debian

2011-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Dear people, I know that this is probably not as serious for PowerPC as it was for some other platforms, but it was, in my opinion, very sad to know that Debian has dropped support for 2 architectures: alpha and hppa. For some personal reasons, I f

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

2011-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Risto. On 04/10/2011 12:48 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: > What is most important when it comes to computers? Stability, I guess. > The machine practically stops after some minutes. Top shows 99%wa > (iowait). Bug in ide driver? Can you provide more information on this? Just for the record, I hav

Bug#622606: xserver-xorg-video-r128: [regression] [powerpc] X dies with SIGBUS if I tell it "UseFBDev" "false"

2011-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Package: xserver-xorg-video-r128 Version: 6.8.1-5 Severity: important Hi there. This is a PowerPC (iBook G3), with a R128 video card and with a very recent kernel (2.6.38), all from Debian, none compiled by me. As per bug #484015 (see my comments the