PowerBook GRUB success

Hi! just to report that I let the GRUB packages upgrade on my PowerBook G4 which was an early GRUB experiment... and nothing broke and it booted again :-P :-P Very good.. I hope this makes Debian PPC more accessible for many! Riccardo

Re: Maintaining older xorg driver packages by Debian Ports

Hi! Ed Robbins wrote: This sounds like a good idea. I have a number of machines affected by this issue (both G4 and x86). Is it possible to bring these packages back into debian? They work well enough for many users. I second that.. especially some of these are very useful on x86, some also o

Re: Debian macmini powerpc - howto install debian

Il 27/04/2020 17:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: Hi Sante! On 4/27/20 4:49 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote: I've Debian up and running on my MacMini powerpc, with unstable and experimental sources in apt. I tried installing samba, but there are unresolved dependencies. Is there a method f

Re: Maintaining older xorg driver packages by Debian Ports

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 12:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi! > > After some xorg driver packages were removed from the archive in #955603 [1] > that we still need for Debian Ports, I was wondering whether it's okay when > I take over maintainership and upload the packages to unstable as

Re: Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

Hi Adrian, Did you actually enable LXDE from the task selection during installation? When I tested the image on my G4, I selected MATE and it installed fine. I did have to install the firmware though but nothing else. I installed LXDE manually, so no, I did not use the task selection. I am al

Re: Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

Hi Jeroen! On 4/29/20 8:57 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > First of all I want to thank Adrian Glaubitz for the fantastic job he did. You're welcome and thanks for the appreciation. It does consume a lot of time and efforts, so I'm glad my work is appreciated. And since there is still so much to do

Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

Hi all! First of all I want to thank Adrian Glaubitz for the fantastic job he did. Debian now installs without major obstacles on this old iBook (I used the powerpc image of 19.4.2020). The only thing that I found so far is that X does not work out of the box. My iBook G4 has an ATI Mobility

Re: installation-reports: - succesfull installation on iMac G5 and powermac G5 Quad (ppc64)

Hi Adrian, On 4/27/20 11:46 AM, MH wrote: 1) grub partition is not visible on mac early Startup Manager. solution is simple - to "bless: file "/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX" on grub partition. Unfortunatelly I dont't know how to do it from debian itself. hfsutils: hattrib can "bless" dir