debian-installer offb console bug on PowerPC

2024-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, I was finally able to track down the problem this morning which breaks debian-installer console output on powerpc and ppc64 since kernel v6.8. There is a patch [1] in the current Debian kernel package which was supposed to fix the exact same problem [2] on ppc64el and it was introduced wit

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 21:52 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 10:06 -0700, tal...@coyoterave.net wrote: > > This image boots right away, no problems getting into a shell or the > > installer. > > Thanks for the confirmation. I'll start bisecting the issue tomorrow the

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Talija, On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 10:06 -0700, tal...@coyoterave.net wrote: > This image boots right away, no problems getting into a shell or the > installer. Thanks for the confirmation. I'll start bisecting the issue tomorrow then. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian D

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Ed Robbins
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 19:24, Leo Historias wrote: > > What? Have you tried the Nouveau drivers? They might offer NV34 drivers. Perhaps a misunderstanding here: I'm not seeking advice on what packages to install, or how to modify my hardware configuration. A mesa package update has broken DRI, a

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Leo Historias
What? Have you tried the Nouveau drivers? They might offer NV34 drivers. On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 1:21 PM Ed Robbins wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 17:14, Leo Historias > wrote: > > > > Ah, I see. But why did you put an rankine gpu on it instead of ATI/AMD? > > I am still not really following.

Re: Booting OS X from grub

2024-10-21 Thread Stan Johnson
Hi Manuel, On 10/19/24 9:31 AM, Manuel Molina Cuberos wrote: > ... > > I managed to partition the disk from OS 9 in order to be able to install > it, and left the third partition (before the empty space), as a 128 > MByte HFS one with  "Apple HFS" type. > > Which tool can I use from OS 9 (or eve

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-21 Thread talija
ilt such a test image and that one boots fine for me on PowerKVM. > > > > Could you test whether this one boots on your PowerMac G5: > > > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test-20241021/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > > > Please ig

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Ed Robbins
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 17:14, Leo Historias wrote: > > Ah, I see. But why did you put an rankine gpu on it instead of ATI/AMD? I am still not really following. Rankine is an nvidia GPU architecture? These are all machines without expansion slots. The powerbook 12" has nvidia nv34 (geforce fx go52

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Leo Historias
Ah, I see. But why did you put an rankine gpu on it instead of ATI/AMD? Em seg., 21 de out. de 2024 12:48, Ed Robbins escreveu: > Hi Leo, > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 15:32, Leo Historias > wrote: > > > > Rankine is for retro elder lowend pcs,not ppc pcs like this. > > I'm think this was an autoc

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 17:22 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, I built such a test image and that one boots fine for me on PowerKVM. > > Could you test whether this one boots on your PowerMac G5: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-te

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Ed Robbins
Hi Leo, On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 15:32, Leo Historias wrote: > > Rankine is for retro elder lowend pcs,not ppc pcs like this. I'm think this was an autocorrect error (s/rankine/radeon/)? I'm still not quite sure what you mean though: Many apple powerpc machines have radeon hardware that is suppor

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
werKVM. Could you test whether this one boots on your PowerMac G5: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test-20241021/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso Please ignore the error message about mismatched kernel modules. This is expected and not relevant for this discussion. This is o

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Talija, On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 07:04 -0700, tal...@coyoterave.net wrote: > When booting the 32 bit version, it only gets as far as "Loading..." > after selecting the installer option, the disk reads for a few moments > then stops, hangs, and crashes to the OpenFirmware with an illegal > address

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Leo Historias
Rankine is for retro elder lowend pcs,not ppc pcs like this. Em seg., 21 de out. de 2024 11:23, Ed Robbins escreveu: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 14:40, Ed Robbins > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 14:22, Ed Robbins > wrote: > > > > > > Downgrading those packages fixes everything. They all i

Re: Please test the latest installation images

2024-10-21 Thread talija
Hi Adrian, When booting the 32 bit version, it only gets as far as "Loading..." after selecting the installer option, the disk reads for a few moments then stops, hangs, and crashes to the OpenFirmware with an illegal address error that went by very fast as it just kept saying "Ok" over and over a

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Ed Robbins
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 14:40, Ed Robbins wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 14:22, Ed Robbins wrote: > > > > Downgrading those packages fixes everything. They all interdepend so I > > am not really sure why. But at least I can now report this... > > Bug report here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Ed Robbins
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 14:22, Ed Robbins wrote: > > Downgrading those packages fixes everything. They all interdepend so I > am not really sure why. But at least I can now report this... Bug report here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/12048

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Ed Robbins
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 13:48, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 13:41:20 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > > I suspect I know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask just in > > case: Are old .deb packages kept around online anywhere, or will I > > need to rebuild the old ver

Re: mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi Ed, On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 13:41:20 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > Hi, > One of my machines is a powerbook 12" with nvidia nv34 chipset. Last > week there was an update to mesa packages and since then opengl has > stopped working. glxinfo reports "Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual > or fbconfig",

mesa update broke GL on nvidia nv34

2024-10-21 Thread Ed Robbins
Hi, One of my machines is a powerbook 12" with nvidia nv34 chipset. Last week there was an update to mesa packages and since then opengl has stopped working. glxinfo reports "Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig", other GL applications have similar issues. I believe the breaking upgrade