Mate Desktop crashes

2024-01-23 Thread Christoph
r that installs default with the Mate Desktop Greetings Christoph OpenPGP_0x407E44339C3B76B4.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Package libnss3_3.60-1_ppc64.deb requires Power-7 hardware

2021-01-18 Thread Christoph Biedl
onal compile options from the CPU the build runs on. Now I am wondering whether tools like blhc could be used to detect such a situation. I bet I wouldn't want to know the result of an archive-wide build log check. Christoph signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: logrotate 3.14.0-2 build failure

2018-08-21 Thread Christoph Biedl
ks for taking care of logrotate. Christoph signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Spurious lzma decompression error on ppc64

2018-02-19 Thread Christoph Biedl
showed no errors. So I'm slightly concerned there's something inside that causes these errors, and the first idea was some kind of memory corruption, due to hardware or kernel. Anybody else seeing something similar? Christoph signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated installer images

2017-09-12 Thread Christoph Biedl
red background during installation is probably still #825840. After reboot into the installed system: The framebuffer console is sometimes distorted, especially when scrolling backwards, requires more checking. Not an installer issue. The kernel creates some hex dump with one value per line

Re: Updated installer images

2017-09-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
rs will love me. This isn't getting anywhere useful soon. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Performance difference 32bit/64bit userland

2017-02-07 Thread Christoph Biedl
. This is not quite satisfying. Anyone an explanation for this? Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-06 Thread Christoph Biedl
the "/boot" part and re-run ybin, or create according links in /boot/ that point to vmlinux-, same for initrd. The first is robust, the second easier to test. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
m is already in the caches, while head perhaps not. It was interesting to learn what actually happens. I could experiment a bit but I bet this isn't quite covered by DMUP. > Anyway, I'll forward this upstream and will add an extremely > conservative "sleep 1". Thank

Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
est pass in ten of ten attempts. So the reason might indeed be the head command hasn't opened fifo yet by the time diff tries to write to it. But this shouldn't be restricted to ppc64el. Someone got a super-fast amd64 to try there? Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
archive on G4 CPU systems since appearently there are more issues that don't show on the G5 buildds - I'm not sure how much of this I will still do. Also I consider big-endian architectures crucial: There still is a tremendous amount of endianness bugs in the code, powerpc helps to de

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
progress by fixing all the open issues. The fact #832931 did not get resolved in due course was one of things that hit the reputation quite badly. Even if the appeal is unsuccessful on any stage, a clean backlog will certainly help to have jessie-LTS for powerpc, and re-entry as well. So please

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
ations were pretty bad. Reading the log I cannot see any bias against powerpc in general, rather the opposite. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
27;s however more than a year until this becomes an issue. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
it does not seem any architecture > has ever done so. I bet never before an architecture got kicked out that is ranking as number 4 according to popcon. The question is, are there enough people that are willing to support powerpc in Debian? The way downhill began when nobody stepped forward in the role call. Christoph

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
Mathieu Malaterre wrote... > Don't forget to set the usertags so that we can track those. #840354 about the syslog-ng issue (which is actually in src:pcre3 as assumed). I'm not sure if usertags can be set that way, we'll see. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
nothing obvious in pcre3 (was 2:8.38-3.1, now it's 2:8.39-2). Godspeed, and please share any findings so I can focus on other issues. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
. The buildds don't notice that as they are already G5 or whatever. So before filing grim bug reports for nothing, would they be justified? Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
ly loaded during d-i. > > So who can help me with: > > https://bugs.debian.org/826629 ? Sorry, both my boxes are nvidia. Which causes a lot of trouble, too. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-25 Thread Christoph Biedl
table, the other on testing. I haven't done d-i tests but certainly could do. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: libgc update, your help needed!

2015-08-22 Thread Christoph Egger
y to keep an eye on it. Christoph

Re: libgc update, your help needed!

2015-08-22 Thread Christoph Egger
nding the buildlog? Thanks! Christoph signature.asc Description: PGP signature

libgc update, your help needed!

2015-08-22 Thread Christoph Egger
rt so libgc works for your architecture. Thanks! Christoph Note: ppc64 and mipsel are no problem and will be fixed with the next upload signature.asc Description: PGP signature

sbcl/powerpc needs someone to build

2013-09-13 Thread Christoph Egger
round (mine is dead unfortunately) and can build+upload the source From unstable with sbcl/experimental (or, probably also with an old version from -ports) that'd be great! Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer pgpEkq5

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-01 Thread Christoph Egger
every day - triage arch-specific bugs I've been working on regressions for some time and plan to continue there (in the past I've worked e.g. on libxcb, emacs and the kernel + lots of build failures) - fix arch-related bugs - maintain buildds I am a DD Christoph pgp_TA2

can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Christoph Ewering
kernel <=2.6.17.8. But with kernel 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.17.9 this is not possible any more. Maybe it is not a kernel problem, i am running gdm and i upgrade gdm in the same timeslot. So maybe gdm overwrote a config-parameter? Every help is welcome, bye, Christoph P.S. I found some articles

Re: Can't Install on new PowerBooks - NO IDE

2005-11-26 Thread Christoph Cebulla
Hi Andrea, > Same installation issue (IDE) here with the newest powerbook5,8 15". > So it looks like we should try to patch the 2.6.14 kernel. Ok. When I > am done compiling, where should I copy it? USB stick? So I suppose I > will have to mount it at boot time when installing, just before

Re: png problems on powerpc and s390 (was: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex)

2005-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:58:01AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Alignment seems to be the same between ppc and i386. (not that I would > know or care about bitfields) alignment for 64bit integer types is not the same for i386 vs everything else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:18:07AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > Remember the debian kernel is generic for all powerpc plateforms, from > > old world to prep boxes, to powerbooks to the last 32bit IBM chrps and > > the genesi pegasos machine, so there is a bit more constraints here, > > but it is

Re: Installing Sarge on IBM 7025-F50: "Non-Debian CD-ROM detected"

2005-08-12 Thread Christoph Weizen
Oh dear, .disk was missing. Shame to me, cheers, Christoph Christoph Weizen wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to install Debian 3.1r0a on a IBM 7025-F50 (CHRP) via CD-ROM. After hardware detection I get the error message "Non-Debian CD-ROM detected". Ok, here's w

Installing Sarge on IBM 7025-F50: "Non-Debian CD-ROM detected"

2005-08-11 Thread Christoph Weizen
ebian CD-ROM detected The CD-ROM drive contains a non-Debian CD. Do you have any suggestions? Oh, please - pimp my F50. ;) cheers, Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: airport base stations

2005-07-20 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Dean! The four different Airport BaseStations are from different planets as you can see in this list http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/Evolution/ index.html, but the graphit one (first genaration) can run linux on it. Google is your friend. Bye, Christoph Am 20.07.2005 um 05:15

Re: grub 2?

2005-05-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:30:19PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > I see that the HURD wiki talks about grub 2, and its powerpc support. Has > anyone tried it on ppc yet? Might be nice to have an alternative to > yaboot :) Given how crappy is grub is on i386 I'd avoid in on other platforms at any

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 cpufreq compile error on ppc32

2005-04-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > One of Ben's patches ("ppc32: Fix cpufreq problems") went in 2.6.12- > > > rc3, but it depended on another patch that's still in -mm only: > > > add-suspend-method-to-cpufreq-core.patch > > > > > > In addition to this, there's a t

PowerMac floppy support is broken in 2.6.11.5

2005-03-24 Thread Christoph Ewering
x27; drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x71c28): In function `release_drive': : undefined reference to `save_flags' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x71c2c): In function `release_drive': : undefined reference to `cli' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x71c44): In function `release_drive': : undefin

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Ewering
? Looks like it is becoming a never ending story. BTW. Thanks for your work at the linux kernel. My linux machine went to my customer when his machine starts to panic. :-( Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Systemhaus für die Medienbranche Mersinwe

Re: Is it possible to run a tv card?

2005-03-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
just freezes with my DVB card when I want to get the video on my monitor. Look into the mail archive for somethings about DVB and Formac Pro TV Bye, Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
run a memtester for linux or MacOS X. Sometimes after a run (1-2 Days) these programs find some defective RAM. At the moment we run a memtester on a G4/400 for 5 days now and no problems found -- but my customer has big problems with this computer :-( Bye, Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > You are right, but yet one can barely function nowadays without > proprietary Flash and Java, and these aren't yet quite there for the > PowerPC yet. At least Java has some promise, but as far as Flash

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > You are right, but yet one can barely function nowadays without > proprietary Flash and Java, and these aren't yet quite there for the > PowerPC yet. At least Java has some promise, but as far as Flash

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > if (fd < 0) { > *error = g_error_new_literal (ACME_FBLEVEL_ERROR, > ACME_FBLEVEL_ERROR_WRONG_PERMS, > _("Wrong permissio

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Now, the problem still remains that the acme thingy needs to set the > PMU_IOC_GRAB_BACKLIGHT ioctl on the /dev/pmu device, and thus evidently need > write access. The easy solution to this problem is to set it to a group, which > the c

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:32:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Do we already have a bug against udev to have the above line per default, or > > otherwise finally fix this issue ? > > There were some objections to it the last time it

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Not sure if i can respond at this time about this, since G5 supply may be > constrained by the will of IBM and/or Apple, it may be an unhealthy place to > be for an alternative powerpc motherboard manufacturer. There's embedded G5 boar

Solved Re: Swithed disk into another system, now yaboot refuses to boot

2004-11-25 Thread Christoph Ewering
, Christoph Am 25.11.2004 um 13:21 schrieb Christoph Ewering: Just to let everybody know that got trapped with the same problem and how to solve this problem: Read: http://www.penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml Especially chapter 9. I solved the booting problem with

Re: Swithed disk into aonother system, now yaboot refueses to boot

2004-11-25 Thread Christoph Ewering
graphiccard? At the moment the mac restarts automatically after around two minutes. (I do not know why the watchdog jumps in, or maybe this something that linux does?) Bye, Christoph P.S. Okay, because the root-fs was dirty after the crash Ext2FS for MacOS X refuses to mount the partition.

Swithed disk into aonother system, now yaboot refueses to boot

2004-11-25 Thread Christoph Ewering
ke the different G4s use a different OpenFirmware-path for the second drive. So here is the question: How can I boot into my Linux to run ybin again? I tried with the debian 3.0 boot-cd but I was not able to write a new boot-config. Thanks in advanced, bye Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Chr

Re: incompatible unaligned.h between x86 and ppc - kernel-hackers verify please

2004-11-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> What crap? You're the one who implied that these were > somehow kernel headers. They're not. They come with > the glibc-headers package. > > It really doesn't matter how this is fixed. It could be > fixed in the glibc-headers package. Alternately, the > kernel source could be made more friendly

Re: incompatible unaligned.h between x86 and ppc - kernel-hackersverify please

2004-11-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:37:35PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > It's a bug in VDR to use a platform independent way of accessing unaligned > data? I don't think so... Yes, it's a bug.

Re: incompatible unaligned.h between x86 and ppc - kernel-hackers verify please

2004-11-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> Stuff breaks, needlessly. I'd go so far as to say that > the Linux API has been broken on ppc. this is not a public API. An inline can't be a kernel API, everything that can be considered a kernel API is behind the syscall barrier.

Re: incompatible unaligned.h between x86 and ppc - kernel-hackers verify please

2004-11-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:56:18AM +0100, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello List, hello Klaus, hello Benjamin! > > At the moment I am fighting with an error on ppc when I want to compile > the new vdr-1.3.14 from Klaus Schmidinger. > > vdr uses unaligned.h and it stops compi

incompatible unaligned.h between x86 and ppc - kernel-hackers verify please

2004-11-03 Thread Christoph Ewering
nel-source 2.6.8.1 from kernel.org. So could the kernel-hackers verify this and correct me or asm-ppc/unaligned.h, please. ;-) Bye, thanks, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-28 Thread Christoph Borsbach
Hi, Michael Schmitz wrote: It works perfectly here, thanks a lot! (1,5Ghz 15" AlBook) Ah, someone with a 15" Albook. Can you send me your 'lsprop /proc/device-tree' output (I'd like to know what the sensor locations are on that model, and how many fans it has). Sure, as soon as i get home.

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-27 Thread Christoph Borsbach
Hello, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi ! This is an experimental patch against 2.6.9. It concerns the ATI based Aluminium PowerBook. The nVidia based ones aren't concerned at all, and the iBook G4 will have to wait a bit more for me to get the video wakeup code right. It will add sleep (suspe

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

2004-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers > > know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as > > it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI > > b

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:17:47AM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2004 02:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Is this a self-build kernel or a kernel-image from Debian? It looks > > like you're missing a framebuffer driver, what does "

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:23:18PM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > Thanks to everybody who posted in response to my earlier question about > resizing partitions. It was successful and my Linux partition has breathing > room again. :) > > Once I got the partition freed up, I decided to use LV

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:45:41AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Sven Luther said: > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > Notice that it should go in the common kernel-source patches instead, > > >

Re: libsensors keywest configuration

2004-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 04:06:35PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:29:05AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:32:19PM +0200, ncrfgs wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:50:42AM +0200, Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: >

Re: libsensors keywest configuration

2004-09-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
inux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20040826103338|27339.txt > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/ > > > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.9-rc1 > > Christoph, > > does this sound like something we would like to backport to 2.6.8 ? Yes.

Sound on new Powerbook

2004-09-02 Thread Christoph Skorepa
and kde working ? thanks for your help christoph

kernel-panics: vdr and video-buf, something special on ppc?

2004-08-31 Thread Christoph Ewering
- i am not a programmer) Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.: 05254 - 80 68 66 33104 Paderborn Fax.: 05254 - 80 68 64 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: alternative airport extreme card

2004-08-22 Thread Christoph Borsbach
Hi, George Wright wrote: Does an alternative airport extreme card exist for ibook/PowerBook G4 exist ? Well, the card claims to be a mini-pci but it looks nothing like any standard mini-pci card. I think the Apple Airport Extreme card is the only card you can put into that slot. Correct -

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-08-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:07:14PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > if you want a working floppy drive. The "PPC" version of floppy.h seemed > to be rather Apple specific, and dumped all the necessary stuff to use > PC floppy controllers without DMA (there is a problem using the ISA DMA > with the f

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-14 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hi, Am 14.07.2004 um 13:01 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: Hope you can help me. I'm afraid I've reached my wits' end. The only solution I can think of is to start with a fresh disk and copy the Mac OS and Linux partitions over. /dev/hda6

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-14 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Jens! Am 13.07.2004 um 12:58 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: The MacOS-Partition containing BootX and the kernel is mounted when I boot from MacOS 9, I can select this partition as boot-partition -- BUT my beige G3 will not boot from this partition! What does

kernel source for PPC? rsync?

2004-07-13 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources? At the moment I am using www.kernel.org. Some rsync-sources? Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-13 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hi Jens! Am 13.07.2004 um 00:29 schrieb Christoph Ewering: Hi Jens! Am 12.07.2004 um 15:22 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: The partition is not mounted when I boot from a MacOS CD. But when I put the disk into an firewire-case I can mount this partition under

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hi Jens! Am 12.07.2004 um 15:22 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: The partition is not mounted when I boot from a MacOS CD. But when I put the disk into an firewire-case I can mount this partition under MacOS X. This usually means that the driver partitions on the

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty > careful to allow a user in expert mode to override module selection. > Of course, loading a module

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now > gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the > disks, in the same approximate spot that it does when using the 2.4 > kernel. I'll see what I c

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-08 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Sebastian! Thanks for your help, but your advise works with NewWorld-Mac only, "beige G3" are OldWorld-Macs. OldWorld-Macs can not use yaboot. AFAIK the oldworld-macs need the Apple-ROMs to initialize the hardware before the kernel can start the real job. Bye, thanks, Chr

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-08 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Jens! Am 03.07.2004 um 12:10 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: I was running "testing" on my beige G3 with kernel 2.6.6. I used a little Partition with MacOS 9.1 on it to boot with BootX into Linux. [...] At the next reboot my beige G3 could not

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Yeah, in the meantime, i need to release a 2.4.26 kernel as there are > people clamoring for it, since the 2.4.25 has some security holes whose > fixes where not backported, and 2.6 is not considered stable by some > users yet (and if y

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> So, i am seriously considering dropping all 2.4 powerpc kernels, and > going with 2.6 only, and would like to get feedback both from > debian-kernel as well as debian-powerpc, feedback i didn't get in the > past. I'd be in favour of that. > Ah, and i am seriously considering dropping support fo

quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-02 Thread Christoph Ewering
I do not know which blocks to copy. Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.: 05254 - 80 68 66 33104 Paderborn Fax.: 05254 - 80 68 64 [E

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I cannot BELIEVE how silly this discussion got, and so quickly as well. > > It's likely to be me, so I'll just shut the fuck up now. Good bye. > > Although IBM has a lot of money they haven&#

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > I think you're reading a bit much into a small joke which even had a > smiled on it. > > A "significant" amount of people have already written to tell me that if > they had been given boards for free it would have happened. N

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >>Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players. > >>Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-) > > > > > >That has nothing to do with big players at all. > > Are you sa

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of > the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for > AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM or one of the > other

Re: Hauppage Nexus DVB-S PCI card in PowerMac 8600

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Ewering
I ran for some time a Siemens DVB-C card with VDR on my beige G3 and everything was fine. Bye, Christoph Am 02.06.2004 um 04:09 schrieb Matthew Reath: I was just wondering if it is possible to use a Hauppage DVB-S card with Debian Linux on a powermac. I know you can't use a standard PC

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > btw, do we really need the power3 vs power4 split? I know the ppc64 > > folks only need split kernels for iseries vs pseries and g5, > > I thought PPC_IS

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

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:40:58AM +0200, Carlos Perell? Mar?n wrote: > I don't think the error message should be changed, it says just what > happens, if you want to control the backlight of your computer, you need > write access to /dev/pmu that's all. The message _is_ broken. A device file usi

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > There is some confusion here, there are currently only 4 kernel images, > in both normal and smp flavor, powerpc for all powerpc processors from > early 601 to the latest g4, power3 for the ibm power3 boxes, and > power4/g5 for the powe

Re: Sound not working with kernel 2.6.5

2004-05-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I upgraded my PowerBook G4 (first generation) from 2.4 kernels to > 2.6.5, using the kernel-image-2.6.5-powerpc package. And sound isn't > working. > > ogg123 says: Can you try loading dmasound_pmac instead of alsa? works like a

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:38:50AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > The patches are ugly as hell and thus not in mainline but they work > > fine > > Which patch exactly? In the SuSE kernel srpms (ftp.suse.com:/pub/people/mantel/kotd/), in patches.suse most of the suse.ppc32* patches deal with th

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:54:52AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > We tried this, but our fixes didn't work. And there have been > discussions among the kernel hackers recently, with no substantial > outcome. Why doesn't it work? The patches are ugly as hell and thus not in mainline but they wor

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-04-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 05:02:51PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi Sven ! > > The current CDs won't boot a G5 with the -power4 option. The problem > is that the kernel contains legacy drivers (8250 serial, etc...) that > are fine for IBM POWER4 hardware, but will lockup a G5. You really

Re: Compiling 2.4.25 Kernel

2004-04-11 Thread Christoph Siess
orinoco 0.11b source with 2.4.25-ben1: ibook:/home/chs/orinoco-0.11b# insmod orinoco.o orinoco.o: unresolved symbol xmon_printf orinoco.o: unresolved symbol xmon hth, Christoph -- "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gehts angry, he'll be a mile away - and barefoot." --Sarah Jackson

Re: 2.6.3-rc2-ben1 build error

2004-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 05:58:08PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > > > Or maybe is just me O:-S > > > > This looks like a screwed up tree, at least in 2.6.3-rc2 > > fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h doesn't exist anymore. > > Yes I remember fixing that in 2.6.2-rc, but it builds fine > here too. Except for a pro

Re: 2.6.3-rc2-ben1 build error

2004-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Domingo Fiesta Segura wrote: > Hi, > > I attach the error log. I took a look at te file fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h; the > compiler doesn't recognise the page_buf_t. Maybe there's some missing > include in that file or the file that includes it. > > Or maybe is ju

Re: no virtual terminals with 2.6.x?

2004-01-29 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Sandro! Thanks a lot, I found that CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y was set to no. Now everything looks okay. Bye, Christoph Am 26.01.2004 um 20:06 schrieb Sandro Hardy: Hi, Ryan Verner schrieb: I am thinking about switching from kernel 2.4.x to 2.6.x because of the dvb-support. At the

no virtual terminals with 2.6.x?

2004-01-26 Thread Christoph Ewering
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Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Furthermore. If devfs is not mounted, devfs should have no influence > whatsoever on the running kernel, right ? Unfortunately devfs is a broken POS, so in 2.4 it has quite a lot.. > The problem is that i am running the powerpc kernel

time is two hours off since 2.4.23-rc5-ben0, vdr and vdradmin

2003-12-01 Thread Christoph Ewering
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

2003-11-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:03:01AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > You don't look at the bogus /proc/scsi stuff for that, do you? > > in current ofpath yes, changing this requires significant rework which > is not going to happen in the 1.x version of yaboot/ofpath. Well, it apears you aren't actu

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

2003-11-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Yaboot 1.3.11 is now available. > > This release adds support for the new PowerMac G5 machines, and the > aluminum PowerBooks. Support in ofpath has been added for the SATA > controller found in the G5, also add-on IDE controllers

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much > >deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel. > >It doesnt look like there are too many places that care. The initrd had > >an e

Re: software download

2003-10-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 00:36 America/New_York, J. Javier Maestro wrote: On Oct Mon 20 2003 02:01, SpawnPPC wrote: Hi all, I'm Emanuele, from Italy. Where I can found and download with apt-get this software for DebianPPC unstable distribution? - Wine - WineX - PSX Emulator - Nint

X causes 'blooming'; radeonfb 'failed to detect DFP panel'

2003-10-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I am having pretty much the exact same problem as Tugrul (http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/ msg00398.html ): Works fine under OSX, but under GNU/Linux has problems. I have a PowerBook G4-800 with a Radeon 7500 M7 LW. I was previously running xserver-xfree8

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