Re: Debian Stable, G4 powermac, X11 crashes on boot with, "black screen" + therm issue?

2014-04-01 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
Just a follow-up to post my config settings: For the g4 powermac screen [for use with the FREE driver] This disables all other monitors, and you can easily make changes to add your personal monitor configuration; but this starts you with just the [working ;)] laptop screen: ---

Re: Debian Stable, G4 powermac, X11 crashes on boot with, "black screen" + therm issue*?

2014-03-26 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
/off-on), so here, that didn't seem to be a factor. Best,jb > > -Original Message- > From: gw [j] iza [b] superstar > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:31 PM > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Stable, G4 powermac, X11 crashes on boot with

Re: Debian Stable, G4 powermac, X11 crashes on boot with, "black screen" + therm issue?

2014-03-25 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
k-out the screen. Neither keypress nor mouse movement would return to the desktop. I recommend removing your screensaver. Additionally, try disabling the auto-dim/auto-off for the display. Dave From: gw [j] iza [b] superstar Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 9:53 AM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.o

Re: Debian Stable, G4 powermac, X11 crashes on boot with, "black screen" + therm issue?

2014-03-24 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
Is there any reason why X would start normally, but then a few hours later, crash with the same old problem? Scenario: I fixed a lot of my issues over the weekend, by using "X -config" ,and then used the auto-generated xorg.conf, but first commenting out things not display-related, and the ext

Debian Stable, G4 powermac, X11 crashes on boot with, "black screen" + therm issue?

2014-03-21 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
ave included excerpts from the kernel, modules, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and /etc/X11/xorg.conf below * Please let me know if it is helpful to the community to file one, or more bug reports? Or I hope changing xorg.conf can fix the problem. Look forwa

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-21 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
...and if it doesn't find the yaboot file, also point to the exact location of the yaboot.conf for that cd If i remember right, it is [path]yaboot.conf e.g. boot cd:, /install/yaboot.conf On Tuesday 21 January 2014 15:00:24 gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote: > Hi Geoff, > Maybe you

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-21 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
, it just went back to the 'ISO > not found' page. > a) What am I doing wrong please? > In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different > partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I > aborted that install at the partiti

Re: Plymouth on ppc [yaboot, nouveau]

2014-01-14 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
9 2172 || On Tuesday 14 January 2014 08:18:48 Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 18:53 +0100, gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote: > > I'm having some problems setting up Plymouth (boot splash package), and > > specifically I'm using the latest Stable, on an old powerma

Plymouth on ppc [yaboot, nouveau]

2014-01-13 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
I'm having some problems setting up Plymouth (boot splash package), and specifically I'm using the latest Stable, on an old powermac. In the plymouth documentation wiki and debian wiki there were some tips at configuring the nouveau drivers, but I'm wondering if plymouth is compatable at all

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-25 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
I would be willing to help out with some task like organizing the documentation and/or translations; of course also testing packages on the user end as needed. I like the idea of a top organizational mastermind making some task sub- teams; and I'm willing to head-up 1-2 things appointed to me.

Re: I got Wireless running on Debian 7.2 PPc Imac g5

2013-11-12 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
...if you really want to use googletube , i mean youtube, you can now, with Iceweasel; allow certain cookies and/or javascripts you can watch videos once you select their html 5 player or maybe also their lightweight player, under "experimental" or something at the bottom of the page (these requ

Re: First boot after fresh install fails

2013-11-05 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
Hi Patrick, Which install method did you chose (cd, usb/live, net, etc.); and with which verbosity level (if you don't know let's assume default)? I am just trying to get a bit more information so that others here, or myself can help you out a bit more. It looks like the install is not so "fa

Re: no sound on powermac3,3 (powerbook g4 550) debian502 gnome

2013-09-25 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
Does it give you a message about the wifi driver in the boot messages? You can review this with ~ dmesg | more On my ppc it gives a url with instructions on how to install the wi-fi driver. This, as well as several old posts i read all explained how to instal the (non-free) wi-fi, hopefully som

Re: no sound on powermac3,3 (powerbook g4 550) debian502 gnome

2013-09-19 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
don't have working [also on a powerbook g4 12' aluminum] Any tips would be appreciated from the community peace j b On Thursday 19 September 2013 16:43:10 frank wrote: > Thanks alot for helping i was able to get the sound by using the commands > bellow > > nano /etc/modules &

Bug#589231: linux-image-2.6.32-5-powerpc: pmu_battery is not loaded, automatically, so ibook battery detection does not work

2011-09-02 Thread B. Zhang
This upower problem is still present for my iBook G4 1.2 Ghz (unstable). There was a discussion: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2011-July/001113.html Bin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: ports/powerpc/index.wml: squeeze release is not mentioned

2011-05-21 Thread Justin B Rye
David Prévot wrote: >>> http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ [...] > Why not instead use something that won't need further update on next > releases, as: > > Debian PowerPC port was first officially released with Debian > GNU/Linux 2.2 (`potato'). > Support for PowerPC is continu

installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread robert b
I had to have my hard drive disk on my Mac Mini replaced. It is now blank. Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From all I've read, it seems like MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed. Is this still true? I may be able to get my hands on a Mac OS C

Re: icedove 2.0.0.9-3 seriously broken

2008-01-26 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Bin Zhang wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 4:14 PM, Jeff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, Just wanted to warn anyone with a testing install to beware of the current (2.0.0.9-3) icedove. It is broken (bug 461981) and an It's a known bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460406

Re: C++ preprocessor fails sanity check?

2007-10-09 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
2.0%7Ebeta1-1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1191116014&file=log&as=raw> Is this a known problem? If not, can anyone explain what's going wrong or send me the config.log file? Never mind. Whatever it was, it seems to have goine away. Probably as a result of a compiler u

C++ preprocessor fails sanity check?

2007-09-30 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
;arch=powerpc&stamp=1191116014&file=log&as=raw> Is this a known problem? If not, can anyone explain what's going wrong or send me the config.log file? Cheers -richy. -- .''`. Richard B. Kreckel : :' : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `' <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Building a dfs CD

2006-07-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
oops, one last "crucial" item: - added the following to sbin/init in the initrd diskram component in order to access my cdrom on /dev/hdc (and possibly other devices): modprobe -a ide-cd ide-disk sbp2 sr_mod Hence to reason to copy over modprobe to the initrd in the instructions provided.

Re: Building a dfs CD

2006-07-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
A couple of addendums/corrections to the previous posting: Regarding items such as: - create dfs directory and iso "attempt" via the dfsbuild process % dfsbuild -a powerpc -c /etc/dfsbuild/dfs.cfg -w dfsbuild o need to not include pkgs: acpidump pnpbios-tools mdadm The html wiped out the tabs th

Building a dfs CD

2006-07-27 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I finally got my dfs cd going. The package, I believe, is geared towards the i386 machines, also there are a couple of modifications that I wanted. My final cd came in under 600M, about 585M. It did finally work via the ofboot.b OF file. The following instructions may not be complete sinc

dfsbuild and powerpcs

2006-07-10 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
I thought I'd share this tidbit for whoever tries to use dfsbuild in testing for the powerpc. The default cd format used for powerpc is hfs (in mkisofs). However, that format suffers greatly from "small file bloat" (forget who coined that phrase), and to actually burn a CD using the packages (o

Problem with screen in eMac

2006-02-09 Thread B.
Hi! I have a eMac, with a NVIDIA GeForce video card. It's already configured. But the programs take more that the screen show. I don't see a little vertical part of the maximized programs. I proved with the Xvidtune program, but it can not do it. Somebody can help me? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Yaboot for Cdroms and qemu disk images

2005-10-06 Thread Dave B. Sharp
Can anyone tell me how to install the Yaboot bootloader onto a cdrom? Ideally what I would like to do is to install yaboot onto a qemu disk image ultimately for some embedded simulation. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Dave Sharp __

Re: minimac for benh

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Dean, Ben, FYI: I just got from a long family vacation and I haven't tried the paypal thing yet. So I still owe you $50 (I will figure out how to use it this weekend!). So if you already have a minimac then please put the $50 to whatever else you might need. Sorry for the delay! Kevin On 1

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-25 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, Put me down for $50 contribution too to get Ben a mini Mac. Kevin On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: Actually, ive been meaning to make some sort of contribution to the fine souls who keep linux-ppc going and had been meaning to contact benh (or other) about some sort of gift. on

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
vant pages on > the Ubuntu wiki.) Great! Maybe this should go in the Sarge release notes, too (is anyone with the ability to do this listening?) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG publ

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
vant pages on > the Ubuntu wiki.) Great! Maybe this should go in the Sarge release notes, too (is anyone with the ability to do this listening?) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG publ

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nto that directory). This worked on my iBook G3: false Hope this helps. Would be nice if this bug was documented somewhere. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nto that directory). This worked on my iBook G3: false Hope this helps. Would be nice if this bug was documented somewhere. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2005-01-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
~kmccarty/enigmail/ Note these directories are not apt-gettable, and I will probably remove them once the powerpc .debs are available from jwsdot.com. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2005-01-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
~kmccarty/enigmail/ Note these directories are not apt-gettable, and I will probably remove them once the powerpc .debs are available from jwsdot.com. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG

Re: weird console cursor behaviour

2004-12-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ay > that those characters don't disappear? I don't know about the other things you mentioned, but this is definitely only a 2.6.9 problem. Downgrade your kernel to 2.6.8 and this ought to be OK. I just filed a bug report on this at http://bugs.debian.org/287867 . -- Kevin B. McCart

Re: Keyboard locked to uppercase

2004-12-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 12/30/2004 04:08 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 22:39 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >>Hi Michael, > > Almost. ;) Oops! That will teach me to be more careful. The sad part is, I think I've done this to your name before. :-( >>(I'm using

Re: Keyboard locked to uppercase

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
like "4" inserted somewhere random. It's completely unreproducible, unfortunately. I'm not certain, but this may have started happening when I switched from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeto

Re: Buildd queue info [was: Re: please recompile latest cernlib]

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
es, and [EMAIL PROTECTED], so hopefully this will be set in action soon. Thanks. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Buildd queue info [was: Re: please recompile latest cernlib]

2004-12-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Sean Neakums wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> By the way, could someone remind me where I can find the buildd queue >> information that was formerly available at www.buildd.net? > > Perhaps http://buildd.debian.org/? Sorry

please recompile latest cernlib

2004-12-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
no trouble compiling cernlib on my iBook G3. By the way, could someone remind me where I can find the buildd queue information that was formerly available at www.buildd.net? Thank you, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: pbbuttonsd won't sleep on 2.6.8

2004-10-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
i Frank, Do you have these lines in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf? onAC_coversleep = yes onBattery_sleep = yes onBattery_coversleep= yes another possibility -- check the permissions on /dev/pmu? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princ

Re: Battery status not correctly seen - how to fix?

2004-10-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 10/08/2004 07:11 PM, Julien BLACHE wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>A little more info about this: the battery level seen just dropped from >>99% to 0% while running on battery, causing a shutdown before I could >>plug in

Re: Battery status not correctly seen - how to fix?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 10/08/2004 11:51 AM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi all, > > Since recently, I have been having a problem with battery monitoring on > my iBook (white, dual USB). It fails to detect that the battery is full > - in fact, it thinks the battery is empty, so wants to shut down if t

Battery status not correctly seen - how to fix?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
_emu in /etc/modules-2.6. thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: Someone responsible??

2004-09-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
they may be better able to answer this question. Apologies if you have already done so... -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: Building mozart-gtk on powerpc [request for help]

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> Then download the mozart-gtk source and try to build it. > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mozart-gtk.html > > When it fails please send me the BUILD/GtkNative.c file. Done (off-list so as not to torment the list spam filters with the 300k attachment). -- Kevin B.

FYI: OpenOffice.org1.1.2 for PPC Linux now available

2004-06-22 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, FYI, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 for PPC Linux is now available. The main new features are: - lots and lots of bug fixes from OOo 1.1.1 see http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/release_notes_1.1.2.html - Will work with Blackdown JDK *or* the IBM JDK (just select one upon install)

Re: Strange problem with special keys on iBook 2 [SOLVED - sort of]

2004-06-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 06/03/2004 03:06 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Does anyone know how my keyboard behavior may have gotten messed up in such > a way? It seems like it may have something to do with the console keymap > but a look into /usr/share/keymaps left me still puzzled. I can now report that

Strange problem with special keys on iBook 2

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
avior also occurs with an older self-compiled 2.6.4 kernel. Unfortunately I don't know how long ago this started happening, but I am fairly sure that it did work correctly with 2.6 kernels at some point. Thanks for any answers, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Depa

Re: "Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken" [SOLVED]

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 06/02/2004 05:37 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I just upgraded to the Gnome 2.6 packages in unstable on my iBook laptop. > Upon logging in to Gnome 2.6 the first time, I receive an error dialog > popup message titled "Error" whose text is "Permissions on the fi

"Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken"

2004-06-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
n the file /dev/pmu are broken". Does anyone know what program pops up this error message (so I can file a bug against it for not giving a better error message), and what the permissions on /dev/pmu are supposed to be? Mine are currently rw---, owned by root.root thanks, -- Kevi

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Re: ppc64 port

2004-04-28 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, Let's review where some of the the other distros are at and what they are doing for x86_64 as well. Everyone (and I mean everyone) has the ability to run both 32 bit and 64 bit code. For x86-64 and ia64 this makes sense. There are a good number of non-free binaries out there -- though I mu

Re: Announcing: PPC Linux Version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1

2004-03-31 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi Jason, If we use the debian packages, can these facilities be added in later? Or is it too late because they have been compiled out of the code? I've been trying to use the Report Wizard and the docbook filter and haven't been able to make them work - this might explain why. Yes, neither o

Re: Announcing: PPC Linux Version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1

2004-03-30 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi Ben, Is this needed for the build or can it be built and JDK added later ? The JDK is needed for a full normal build of OOo but Debian and others use patches to disable Java since Java itself is not free. Much of the functionality is present without the need for Java. Actually, my ques

Re: Announcing: PPC Linux Version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1

2004-03-30 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi Ben, The old JDK is the one I use with OOo. I know that work is still ongoing at Blackdown for PPC Linux since Sun expressed some interest in it recently (but not enough to actually find me to do it) so I have pretty much given up on it. Frankly I use the IBM jdk 1.4.1 for almost everyth

Announcing: PPC Linux Version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1

2004-03-30 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
FYI only, OpenOffice.org announces OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 for PPC Linux is now available on the StarDiv and YellowDog Linux Mirrors and selected other locations. http://porting.openoffice.org/linuxppc/ppclinks.html This contributed build was made on an almost stock YDL 3.0 machine and therefo

Re: 2.4.25 kernel: suspend causes freeze on iBook2 [SOLVED]

2004-03-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I am running sid and just installed Sven's 2.4.25 kernel (package > kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac) on my iBook2. It works perfectly > with one unfortunate exception: the laptop does not wake up from suspend > mode when I re-

Debian ppc64 Port?

2004-03-16 Thread Mahesh B
Hi Tom, I have a ppc64 system with Debian woody(32 bit ppc port). I have updated my kerenl with 2.6.3. Debian provides only 32 bit ppc port as of now. I would like to build 64 bit XFree86 from the latest source (XFree86 4.4). I have a 64 bit toolchain. My Linux kernel is also 64 bit kernel. Is

Re: 2.4.25 kernel: suspend causes freeze on iBook2

2004-03-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:55:47PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > Any other thoughts? Should I try again using the stock .config that comes > > with 2.4.25-ben1? > > Yes, please do that. I built 2.4.25-ben1 now using Ben

Re: 2.4.25 kernel: suspend causes freeze on iBook2

2004-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
KEYSPAN_USA19QW=y > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA19QI=y > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_MPR=y > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA49W=y > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA49WLC=y regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

2.4.25 kernel: suspend causes freeze on iBook2

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ower/levels, which reads: 1 3 Thanks in advance for any help, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Request rebuild of cernlib on mips and powerpc

2004-02-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
r 1 http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=cernlib&ver=2003.09.03-3&arch=powerpc&stamp=1075924105&file=log&as=raw These two builds are necessary in order for the latest version of cernlib to make it into testing. thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: IBM Java SDK 1.4.1

2004-01-25 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Possibly? The Blackdown JDK source does not come with any JIT sources but it does come with Hotspot sources but not for PPC. Would someone like me be considered "contaminated" even if there is no JIT being used (or Hotspot for that matter) for PPC since I have seen the built the Sun sourc

Re: bitkeeper trees: where is the debian linux bk for powerpc?

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, FWIW, I just rsyncd and built 2.6.1-rc1-ben1, added a few patches to make my aec62XX card work again and edited the pmac_defconfig to enable SMP, IRQ sharing, and the aec62XX and rebuilt it and I must say all of my troubles with 2.6.0-test11 have gone away. - once I have loaded the correc

Re: 2.6.0-ben3: Badness in redraw_screen

2003-12-31 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, In the first hunk of your patch you can possibly grab the semaphore and then do a return 1 with the semaphore held. If you really need to hold the semaphore to do a vc_allocate then you should remember to release that semaphore before doing the return 1 So something along the lines of .

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-13 Thread B. Bogart
> AFAIKS from the archives of this mailing list it is necessary to have > a CVS version of XFree86 installed as support for the Radeon 9600 was > added not so long ago. Wah, 2D or accelerated 3D support?? B.

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-10 Thread B. Bogart
the radeons above 9200 are not supported by X. :( Since ATI has not released specs on the r300 chips. nvidia chips have x86 only binary drivers ati drivers are also x86 only. :( I'm still getting a powerbook with the 9600, but I will not be able to do much with debian. There may be a way to

Re: also sound and lost cpu

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
the output used in /proc/stat that is causing "top" to be confused? Kevin On Monday 08 December 2003 19:38, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I also seem to be having sound troubles with 2.6.0 that do not happen with > 2.4.23. I have buyilt 2.6.0-test11 with i2c-keywes

Re: also sound and lost cpu

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > > The real issue is that I have run into one of my 2 cpu's literally > > disappearing according to "top" and to its slower performance. > > Haven't seen that. Remind me the exact machine model and how > do you reproduce that ? You can try using xmon-over-firewire > from another machine to fi

also sound and lost cpu

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Ben, I also seem to be having sound troubles with 2.6.0 that do not happen with 2.4.23. I have buyilt 2.6.0-test11 with i2c-keywest built in and not as a module so I can't try the rmmod trick. I will rebuild and revert to keeping it a module. The real issue is that I have run into one of m

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > Nope, setting JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE to any value from 0 to 8 doesn't seem > to help. Setting JAVA_COMPILER=NONE worked, but there is not JIT then. The code in the JIT looks in /proc/cpuinfo and parses it to try to detect processor type. Is there some strange restriction on your processor ty

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
think (but I don't remember anymore) that you should try somehting like: export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6 And that may help. Give it a try and let me know if it does. Kevin On Monday 08 December 2003 09:45, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Kevin B. Hendric

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Make sure you have the very very latest version of the IBM jdk 1.4.1 for p-series. A previous version had a "bug" that created illegal instruction when using the JIT for some processor types it could not identify. The very latest version of the IBM JDK no longer has that problem on my mac

Re: "Apple Care Protection Plan": Is it worth its money?

2003-12-02 Thread B. Bogart
Not my own machine, but a machine at work lost the whole logic board out of nowhere, about 2 years after getting it (dual 450). It would be been expensive to fix without applecare... Ben - Original Message - From: "Wolfgang Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 20

Re: upgrade of kernel breaks drm/dri?

2003-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
On Monday 01 December 2003 02:12, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 30 Nov 2003 at 10h28, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > > Hi, > > > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) > > drmOpe

Re: upgrade of kernel breaks drm/dri?

2003-11-30 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Sorry, please ignore this. I shoudl have double checked that the CONFIG_DRM was even abled at all. I thought it would be default but was not even set. My bad... Kevin On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:28, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > Forgive me if this has been dicsuss

upgrade of kernel breaks drm/dri?

2003-11-30 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Forgive me if this has been dicsussed before. Tux racer used to work just fine with my old YDL 3 kernel and XFree86 4.3.0. I have now upgrade to to Ben's latest 2.4.23 kernel and it seems sadly Tux racer has sloowed way down again. Looking in /var/log/XFree86*.log the only bad thing I can

Re: jre 1.4 for powerpc

2003-11-28 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Yes, I suggest someone port the kde/konqueror way of interfacing to java for mozilla. I will most likely not be making any more Mozilla Plugin or Blackdown releases for PPC Linux JDK 1.3.1 We do have people who are working on JDK 1.4.1 and hotspot but I am not sure of any timeline. Frank

Linux on new powerbooks

2003-11-25 Thread B. Bogart
Hey all, I will soon be getting a new power book for OSX and Linux development. Has anyone got linux going on one of these machines? The features I need are: firewire support (for video stuff, including dv1395 modules etc..) accelerated 3D on the radeon 9600 Features that I would like: airport

Re: CFP (Call for Participation) Debian PPC64

2003-11-16 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, Speaking of the abi, they did just seem to copy it over blindly from IBM arches. For example ... Linuxppc64 even follow the broken AIX alignment that long long ints are aligned to 8 but doubles are only aligned to 4 in structures. This creates lots of problems for OpenOffice.org since A

Re: CFP (Call for Participation) Debian PPC64

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi Tom, I got got a dual Operton system that is similar in many ways to the PPC64 versus 32 issue in that 32 bit apps run at full speed under Opteron. Using that as an example: - kernel is 64 bit supporting both 32 but and 64 bit syscalls - /lib and /lib64 both exist - tool chain defaults to

Re: java with mozilla-firebird & mozilla

2003-11-10 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, It can't seem to find the mozilla libs (libxpcom.so and libnspr4.so). Do you know why not? I just tried using my Mozilla 1.3 build (admittedly old) with the Blackdown JDK 1.3.1 plugin on the URL http://www.barbery.net/anagram/ and it starts up fine (although I can't read that language) I

Re: java with mozilla-firebird & mozilla

2003-11-10 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Not if it is the one I put on the YellowDog Linux mirrors in OpenOffice.org. That was compiled with gcc 3.2.2 and does work with mozilla compiled with gcc 3.2.2 as well as OOo compiled with gcc 3.2.2. That is why I put it there. Kevin On Monday 10 November 2003 04:28, Vincent Lefevre wrot

Re: Debian installation of new 15" alubook 1,25SD

2003-10-27 Thread eric b
Hi, Récemment Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:24:01 -0700 "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > > Does the cdrom seem to mount correctly? Excuse me, I've forgoten to give the information : the cdrom works correctly, and I can cd read, cp and so on with all files in it. >Try mounting it ahead of

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
FYI: Tomorrow OOo 1.1.0 final for PPC Linux will/should be available on the YellowDogLinux mirrors in pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ These are NOT debs but instead the Official OOo installer build done for PPC Linux. It should work on any system using late versions of glibc-2.3.1 (such as

Re: Enabling IBM Java 141 for web browsers

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, As far as I know, the IBM jdks do not come with a Mozilla plugin so they won't work with Mozilla period. You should be able to use in in Konqueror just by opening it up and editing its setting and changing the path to find java in the settings. >From there you should be good to go. If you

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Just check out the YDL mirrors in software/openoffice/ the last rebuild of the JDK is there. Kevin On Tuesday 02 September 2003 09:33, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du mardi 02 septembre 2003, vers > > 14:27, "Kevin B. Hendricks" &l

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Sven, > > Of course there is the Balckdown JDK 1.3.1 for PPC Linux that does work > > (I use it to build OOo with) but you are right the Blackdown organization > > really > > You are speaking about OOo 1.0.3 or the new 1.1 stuff ? I maintain the Linux PPC port for OOo (...not for Debian, Jan d

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, An aside ... we (ppc Linux) are really too small of a development community and we should really have just one shared development list to get what few of us are still active at least seeing/hearing what the others are doing. Kevin On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:16, Kevin B. Hendricks

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > > > (sadly, the only one available to us ppc'ers) Of course there is the Balckdown JDK 1.3.1 for PPC Linux that does work (I use it to build OOo with) but you are right the Blackdown organization really could use some pleople that understand the PPC instruction set well-enough to help ou

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, You might want to check out the dev list at YellowDogLinux. it seems by IBM decided to NOT allow its JIT to run with G4 and other non-IBM processors. There was a bit of a storm (i.e. I complained loudly and so did others on that list and on the IBM java newsgroup). I then had to recompile

Re: kernel panic with latest 2.4.22-ben1 from CVS

2003-08-30 Thread eric b
512Mb RAM > and internal airport. Mine is only an ibook2.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anyone have the same problem? I believe it was my fault, bad option, or something like that > Bye, > Giuseppe Cheers -- NO ePATENTS / NON AUX BREVETS SUR LES LOGICIELS / Voir /see http://swpat.ffii.org/ eric b

Re: 2.4.21-ben2 and acard aec6280m (CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING)

2003-07-06 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
. Kevin On Sunday 06 July 2003 15:23, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:22, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yes the CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING *must* be set for that driver to work for > > ppc. Without tuning it will not properly work for ppc l

Re: 2.4.21-ben2 and acard aec6280m (CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING)

2003-07-06 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Whoops my tree is 2.4.21-ben1 and I just looked in drivers/ide/pci and sure enough there are actually two aec62xx drivers in that tree (one there and one in drivers/ide). So the update to the new driver in ide/pci seems to have broken this driver for us. Will you please file a breakage re

Re: 2.4.21-ben2 and acard aec6280m (CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING)

2003-07-05 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Yes the CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING *must* be set for that driver to work for ppc. Without tuning it will not properly work for ppc linux and you get either partition check problems or: > hdX: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 > hdX: lost interrupt > hdX: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30

Re: Supported systems (Was: Apple PowerMac G5)

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > Well, they do... internally to Apple ;) Apple is quite clear in it's > total absence of interest about Linux on their machines. Some ppl here > even consider us as a competitor... And I remember all of the time and effort many of us in the community put in to help Apple in its MkLinux proj

Re: some basic problems with ppc assembler

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Grab http://crunch.ivey.uwo.ca/khendricks/PPC_docs.tar.gz There is an old ABI document. Please note. PPC 32 does not follow the published ABI all of the time: 1. does not return small structures (size of 8 or less) in registers 2. does not pass floating point signals as doubles aligned to

Re: 2.4.21 on a G3

2003-06-17 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, You don't need to do that at all. Simply rebuild a kernel with both of these switches enabled and your 6280M should happily be recognized and work: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX=y CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING=y You need both (without the TUNING set it hangs on the aprtition check). This has worked fine

Re: Acard AEC6280 / ATP-865

2003-05-26 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
an a Debian current > (3.0r1) boot cd on a Macintosh B/W G3 last night, and neither of the > installation kernels finds the controller or the disk attached to it. > If I could find something like an acard.o somewhere, I could probably > put it on an ext2 partition on an ATA Flash disk, b

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