Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Mark! On Aug 25, 2018, at 8:52 PM, Mark G.B. wrote: > Hello Rick and other PMac users, > > What kind of Powermac are you running the 4.17 kernel on? 11,2? 11,2 btw, I > believe is the G5 Quad-core. Even with your reply, I may not come to a > definitive conclusion. I will have to do some r

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/25/2018 06:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 25, 2018, at 7:54 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: The bucket of things I see back on 4.15.0 are : 4.15.0-2-powerpc64@nix# uname -a Linux nix 4.15.0-2-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1 (2018-03-20) ppc64 GNU/Linux 4.15.0-2-powerpc64@nix# lsmod | gre

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 25, 2018, at 7:54 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > The bucket of things I see back on 4.15.0 are : > > 4.15.0-2-powerpc64@nix# uname -a > Linux nix 4.15.0-2-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1 (2018-03-20) ppc64 > GNU/Linux > 4.15.0-2-powerpc64@nix# lsmod | grep -i "farm" > windfarm_cpufreq_cl

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/25/2018 04:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 24, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 08/24/2018 09:31 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I just loaded the latest Debian-ports powerpc64 installer on a PowerMac dual-core G5 that I had lying around. It installed kernel 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 from t

Re: Debian sid testing progress

2018-08-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 08/14/2018 10:14 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 08/14/2018 09:54 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: there is a lot of good stuff, but also hold your breath. I am working on the code to generalize his work so that it works on x86-32bit (64bit is currently off-limits for the code, it w

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 25, 2018, at 1:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> 2) Firefox segfaults when I start it, either from command line or from the >> system menu. Is this a known bug? Are there any other graphical (i.e., >> non-text-mode) browsers I can use instead? I can use elinks for most >

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On mobile, excuse my brevity. > On Aug 25, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Other things I have observed about this installation: > > 1) I can’t install the “printer-driver-postscript-hp” package, because the > “libsane” package is missing. Is this an oversight that will be fixe

Re: PowerMac G5 fans run out of control with kernel 4.17.0-3-powerpc64 but not with 4.16.0-1-powerpc64

2018-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 24, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 08/24/2018 09:31 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I just loaded the latest Debian-ports powerpc64 installer on a PowerMac >> dual-core G5 that I had lying around. >> It installed kernel 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 from the CD. After the install >> finis