Bug#634917: O: mouseemu -- Emulate mouse buttons and mouse wheel

2011-07-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the mouseemu package. The package description is: Mouseemu is a daemon to emulate mouse buttons on trackpads with only one button. It lets you: - emulate middle and right click - emulate mouse wheel - block trackpad while typing . It was

Bug#607927: powerpc squeeze CD image fails

2010-12-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: debian-cd Severity: serious Hi The creation of the powerpc CD Image currently fails. genoisoimage aborts with a stack trace as can be seen in this log: http://cdbuilder.debian.org/cdimage-log/Csqueezepowerpc Is anyone with access to the build host able to investigate this? AFAICT the f

Re: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

2010-12-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Son Dez 19 18:26:04 +0100 2010: > Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.442851] snd_rawmidi: disagrees > about version of symbol snd_info_register > Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.455570] snd_rawmidi: Unknown > symbol snd_info_register This l

Re: advice about /etc/securetty

2010-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Xavier Grave's message of Don Dez 16 14:37:36 +0100 2010: > After a fresh power6 install :) I tried to login as root at the console > prompt but hvsi0 was missing in /etc/securetty > > Do you think this can be counted as a bug against login package ? I > don't really know the policy

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Milan Kupcevic's message of Die Dez 14 23:27:30 +0100 2010: > Send all collected to mi...@physics.harvard.edu and a...@debian.org as > this mailing list wont let your message go through with attachments. Please also CC the relevant bug reports in the Debian Bug Tracking System: 352..

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Frank Fegert's message of Die Dez 14 19:34:12 +0100 2010: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:22:37AM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > I just made 2 unofficial CDs available[1]. Each has a sha512sum > > signed by my GPG key[2]. > > > > One includes yaboot_1.3.13a-1squeeze1 and

Re: Squeeze

2010-12-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Thomas Carlson's message of Die Dez 14 06:41:20 +0100 2010: > Yes, I certainly would be. > > I noticed today that the latest weekly-build isn't Squeeze. It's > the evil Sid. I'm quite sure this is wrong or a bug in the weekly-builds. Weekly builds usually take installer components

Re: Report of install for a power6 with debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso

2010-12-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Milan Do you have any idea about the error reported by Xavier? Should I wait with the upload until you have a fix for this? I personally don't know much about power6 and can't help with this. I tend to not delay the upload any further. If the issue get's fixed before the squeeze release we can

Re: New Yaboot in Sid

2010-12-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Aurélien Nice to see you back doing yaboot work! However this upload is very unfortunate. Do you still follow debian-devel-announce and do you know that we are currently in deep-freeze and according to the freeze exception policy posted by the release team [1] this upload has very little chance

Re: Yaboot

2010-11-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Benjamin Cama's message of Mon Nov 29 15:29:10 +0100 2010: > Hi, > > Le samedi 27 novembre 2010 à 13:22 +0100, Jeroen Diederen a écrit : > > What about yaboot? Does anyone have any update on this ongoing problem? > > There was some activity a while ago but it vanished after a few wee

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Benjamin Excerpts from Benjamin Cama's message of Mon Okt 11 00:21:23 +0200 2010: > That's where I am asking for help from the d-i team: how could we test > this new package from a d-i install disc ? Is there an easier and more > "officially-compliant" way, so that we can report bugs without d

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Benjamin Cama's message of Don Sep 16 14:01:52 +0200 2010: > Hi, > > I am trying to exactly understand the bugs that currently affect the > Debian PPC port and particularly yaboot. There are many bugs around it, > but even before trying to fix them, we should check if it's even > pos

Bug#592034: O: mol

2010-08-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi As I no longer use Mac-on-Linux for myself and I no longer regularly use my powerpc machine I'm orphaning mol. Formally mol is team maintained by the MOL Packaging Team, but beside very few one time contributions no one other than me ever did any packaging work

Re: debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde, 7/26/10

2010-08-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Thomas Carlson's message of Son Aug 01 12:55:52 -0400 2010: > Sound doesn't work when I try to play a CD-ROM in VLC media player > and Mixer doesn't give me any controls to adjust volume and so on. > Am I missing something in Settings? Did you also try to play a music file (eg. ogg,

Re: patches to ybin

2010-07-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Mit Jul 28 23:49:45 -0400 2010: > On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >> > >> The third half of the problem is that whatever the kernel update deb > >> uses to build a new yaboot.conf sometimes gets it

Re: patches to ybin

2010-07-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Mon Jul 26 00:47:21 -0400 2010: > On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: > The second half is that whatever part of the installer that builds the > initial yaboot.conf (the one that gets passed to ybin when i

Re: ibm java

2010-05-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:08:07PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > I tried to use alien to convert it a debian package (sure, non-compliant > and all that stuff) so that a start of a debian packaging could be made > (yes, I am lazy and I don't know enough about java to care about > properly maintai

Re: Booting from USB Drive

2009-10-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PowerBook G4. Is there any way to get it to boot from USB > drive. I can set it up but I need the correct initrd.gz to make it > work. > > Has anyone tried this? Can anyone suggest a web site? AFAIK it's possibl

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

2009-09-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:27:01PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > So, for a distribution kernel, I guess that, once nobody complains > about the problems, we can just standardize on snd-powermac (and > have people have a working setup) and document the potential > (perhaps nonexistent?) problem i

Re: Hard drive detection isn't working

2009-08-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:15:49PM +0800, Jason Hsu wrote: > As I mentioned before, I'm trying to install Debian on an iBook G4 laptop. > The installer in the netinst CD refuses to recognize the hard drive. > > What do I need to do now? Until I can get the installer to recognize the > hard

Re: Brother Printer Driver

2009-06-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 03:17:14PM +0200, drz wrote: > Hi all > > Anybody got a Brother printer running? (Especially MFC-7420) > > Brother provides a driver but its compiled against i386 and there are > executables (or binaries) in the package so its not possible to use the > driver > on

Re: Bug#521865: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc: keyboard not working at all

2009-05-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:07:21PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Gerfried Fuchs [2009-04-28 14:30:09 CEST]: > > * Gerfried Fuchs [2009-04-20 12:07:24 CEST]: > > > Version: 2.6.29-2 > > > * Gerfried Fuchs [2009-03-30 17:42:39 CEST]: > > > > Upgrading to 2.6.29-1 did cause several problems

Re: Bug#521865: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc: keyboard not working at all

2009-04-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:34:26AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:09 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:49:48AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > * Gaudenz Steinlin [2009-03-31 23:33:22 CEST]: > > > > On Tue, Ma

Re: Bug#521865: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc: keyboard not working at all

2009-04-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:49:48AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Gaudenz Steinlin [2009-03-31 23:33:22 CEST]: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:14:12PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > * Gerfried Fuchs [090331 11:49 +0200] > > > > Hi! > > > &g

Re: Bug#521865: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc: keyboard not working at all

2009-03-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:14:12PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Gerfried Fuchs [090331 11:49 +0200] > > Hi! > > > > I'm forwarding this bugreport to the list in the hope that I'm not the > > only powerpc person having this problem. It would be great if others can > > confirm the issue

Re: NFS mounts: access rights problem

2009-02-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Michel On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:55:20PM +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: > Hi, > > This is probably not really on topic here, so please excuse me... > > I'm banging my head against a NFS problem. Since recently, probably the > last big Testing update on the NFS client, there is a problem with > a

Re: RAID Controller to enable SATA HDD Hard Drive

2009-02-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Stephan On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:18:30AM -0800, Stephan wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've installed a Silicone Imaged based RAID controller with one Maxtor > 250 gig SATA hard drive and no other drives. Installation of Etch ran > smoothly, the hard drive was identified, configured, and the bas

Re: maconlinux

2009-02-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:12:23PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Gaudenz Steinlin [2009-02-17 14:24:13 CET]: > > Which kernel does panic? The macosx kernel or the linux kernel? > > ... on a side note, Gaudenz - any news on OSX 10.5 support in > mol-drivers-macosx in

Re: maconlinux

2009-02-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:47:56PM +0100, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > Hello list, > > I have just installed mol and mol-drivers-macosx . Ran "sudo molvconfig" > which apparently configured what everything OK. I got OSX X 10.3.9 > installed. When I try to run as root "startmol --osx" mol switches t

Re: Using wireless on a PowerBook G4

2009-01-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:58:43AM -0500, Christopher Jones wrote: > > One last thing: I tried to apt-get a newer kernel version, and I > successfully installed 2.6.24 (apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24- > etchnhalf.l-powerpc linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.l-powerpc), but when I > logged out

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:50:51PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * benoar [2009-01-30 14:40:02 CET]: > > I personally had a G4 iBook than ran without pbbuttonsd : > > Fine, I didn't deny that it's not possible. > > > - "function" keys are very well handled by xorg & gnome > > How are xorg &

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:45:48PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > drivers. The repository had a package for the drivers, however when > > getting the drivers with apt-get the package was suprisingly broken as > > the package attempted to download further data from a external source > > that no l

Re: user without root privilege

2009-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi As your questions are not specific to the Debian powerpc port and these are really beginner questions, they are better suited for the debian-user list. Please ask further questions there. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:16:36AM +, the grv wrote: > Hi list. Sorry for my bad english. > Into my po

Re: `ondemand' not working: what to use

2009-01-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:42:46AM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:30:08 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > So what else should I use? > > With my old iBook G4 800MHz I used powernowd. > See if that helps. I use cpudyn and I'm quite happy with it. It's also able to suspend

Re: keyboard layout on powerbook 1,67

2009-01-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi GRV (?) On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:10:40PM +, the grv wrote: > I set the apple laptop (italian layout), now it works but i can't write the > euro key ("e" key) and the "@" with "alt"; also the key before 1 key is not > correct. To be able to write the € and @ symbols you have to define

Re: keyboard layout on powerbook 1,67

2009-01-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:12:42PM +, the grv wrote: > hello everybody, is always me, and this is my 3th question on this list. > Sorry for my BAD, BAD, BAD english :-(. My keyboard layout is not correct for > my powerbook 1,67 ghz, with italian keyboard layout, lenny testing and Gnome. > > I

Re: RealPlayer or equivalent for PPC?

2008-10-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:47:14AM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2008 11.27:31 José JORGE wrote: > > A Monday 20 October 2008 10:09:05, Bin Zhang escreveu: > > > You can play real video using mplayer if you download real codecs. > > > > What ones? I don't know any PPC real

Re: MOL not working on Lenny - tun0 problem

2008-10-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi all On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 02:04:10PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-22 20:50:42 CEST]: > > Which version of MacOS do you try to boot? MOL does currently only support > > MacOS up to 10.4.x. > > Gaudenz, do yo

Re: Sungem Driver doesn't work

2008-10-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Andrea On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 01:34:35PM +0200, Andrea Di Pasquale wrote: > Hi guys! > I'm using debian lenny on ibook PPC G3 800 Mhz with ram 256 MB (ver. 2002). > I wanna to use linux-image-2.6.26-1-powerpc (32 bit) kernel, but sungem > driver > works very bad. It's works only in my Local

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

2008-10-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:46:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi All > > I can't e2fsck my root partition any more - looks seriously like that > partition went belly up on me. e2fsck tells me something like the > superblock could not be read ... > > The Debian install CD (Etch) does no

MacOS 9.x not booting with MOL (was: MOL not working on Lenny - tun0 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:36:10PM -0400, Michael Fox wrote: > > Can't read Elf32 image header > > Fatal error: opening drivers/openbios: No such file or directory This is the critical line. You ran into Debian bug #437467. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437467 The fix

Re: MOL not working on Lenny - tun0 problem

2008-09-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Michael On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:33:10PM -0400, Michael Fox wrote: > I am trying to run the program Mac-on-Linux on Lenny running on my > PowerBook G4/1.33 and when I type in the startup command on a terminal, I > get the following. (I added the boldface to direct this question.) > > Star

Re: ndiswrapper fails to build

2008-09-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:12:05AM +0200, benoar wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:35:34 -0300, Gunther Furtado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to build ndiswrapper using module-assistant with no > > success. > > > > The machine is an clamshell iBook 300Mhz running deb

Re: airport stops working on debian side of computer

2008-09-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:06:01PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I am running a ppc mac mini with the broadcom chip (bcm4306); am running > debian unstable with kernel 2.6.26-1; have just updated with apt-get > hoping this would ix the problem but it didn't. My wireless suddenly > stopped workin

Re: xrandr and dvi output

2008-09-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:06:12PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Quoting Alex Deucher: > > -- > > "Many powerbooks use an external tmds chip to provide duallink on the > > dvi port. Not all of these tmds chips are currently supported as I'm > > not su

Re: kernel sources.

2008-08-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 04:36:15PM +0200, Børge Holen wrote: > hi, I just recently started using the debian kernel package, > my current kernel is 2.6.26-1-powerpc witch is in package > linux-image-2.6.26-1-powerpc. > > What I try to achieve is to compile the raop_play alsa driver, witch in turn

Re: Bug#445359: [Pkg-mol-devel] Bug#445359: [RFH] Mac-on-Linux for Debian lenny

2008-08-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
6 needs to go into testing or the fix for #460667 must be applied to the 2.6.25 Debian kernel. Is the kernel version for lenny already decided? On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:58:56PM -0300, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry for following up late. > > * Gaudenz Steinlin <

Re: [Pkg-mol-devel] Bug#445359: [RFH] Mac-on-Linux for Debian lenny

2008-07-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
my own area). > > On Jul 16 2008, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Just a short update on this bug if somebody has more time to work on > > this. I will be only partly available until the begining of august. > > Will you be able to attent DebConf 8? I have a pressing need of

Re: [Pkg-mol-devel] Bug#445359: [RFH] Mac-on-Linux for Debian lenny

2008-07-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Just a short update on this bug if somebody has more time to work on this. I will be only partly available until the begining of august. I will be able to respond to mail, but most likely not be able to work on the package. * The current version of mol in testing and unstable works with the patc

Re: [RFH] Mac-on-Linux for Debian lenny

2008-06-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Rogério On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 07:22:55PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Debian. > > > > -> Unusable kernel modules: This is caused by the removal of > >handle_mm_fault in recent kernels. To fix this we have to talk to the > >kernel team to see if they accept the attached patch whi

[RFH] Mac-on-Linux for Debian lenny

2008-06-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi The current state of MOL in Debian is broken since quite some time. If we want to have MOL in the next release we have to act now! Currently there are 2 major issues holding up the MOL packages in Debian. -> Unusable kernel modules: This is caused by the removal of handle_mm_fault in rece

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

2008-03-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:50:01PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28 2008, at 10:45 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I dist-upgraded, la

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

2008-03-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:07:53PM +0100, Thomas Constans wrote: > > Le vendredi 28 mars 2008 à 10:45 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > > > I also see this occasionally. It does not happen on every suspend/resume > > cycle. But for me it's always enogh to just rmmod a

Re: Mouse doesn't work on iBook G4 after sleep in Sid

2008-03-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:54:15AM +0100, Francesco Pedrini wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I dist-upgraded, last weekend, to the lastest version of Sid on the > > repositories for my iBook G4 (summer 2005). Generally, it works very > > well (it

Re: Bug#469030: debian ppc64 not booting after install

2008-03-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:19:29PM +0200, Ulrich Enslin wrote: > > I installed debian 40r3 on a IBM Power 620 (7025-f0) from CD > (debian-40r3-powerpc-netinst.iso). The install was successful, but the > system did not boot from the scsi disc, with the output shown below. > > Boot messages:

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] (testers ?) Fix sleep on some powerbooks

2008-03-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Ben On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Ben, Gaudenz - Hi All > > On Mon, Mar 03 2008, at 17:27 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > The PMU backlight code would kick in during sleep/resume even on > > machines that use a different backlight method. Thi

Re: 2.6.25-rc3 (g7704a8b) - freezer for suspend broken?

2008-03-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:27:19PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi All > > Unstable Debian here, most packages last upgraded about 2 months ago. > > On a Powerbook5,8 > > With git sources pulled last Friday: The kernel compiled nicely - it > even booted (I don't take that for granted, w

Re: iMac G5.

2008-02-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:06:33PM -0500, Matt Gracie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I installed Debian Sid on an iMac G5 today, one of the second generation > 20' models (with a Radeon, without a camera). Whenever the machine loads > X, the screen goes black and the

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-02-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:30:37PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > Actually one more thing, any benefits to doing this? Besides the geek > > > satisfaction that all of us get from compiling a new kernel. > > > > I think self-compiling kernels is generally overrated. I'd suggest > > trying p

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-01-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:50:23PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Well, the primary advantage to rolling your own is that you can customize the > kernel for your > hardware. > > Generic kernels include drivers for all sorts of things, most of which you > don't have. > > This can reduce the size

Re: please retry iceowl on powerpc buildd

2008-01-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:03:11AM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote: > Hi, > > the iceowl powerpc built failed because of a misconfigured > buildd. Giving it another try should help (as it did for icedove). According to the developers reference the correct contact address for the build daemons is [EMA

Re: make-kpkg "utsrelease.h ... does not match current version"

2008-01-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:45:41AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09 2008, at 23:43 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 the mental interface of > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer told: > > > > > Since hours I'm trying to compile one of the latest git kernel > > > sources: al

Re: alubook 5,8: Firewire 400/800 possible with some recent kernel?

2007-12-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:19:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi all > > Anyone out there has got a device successfully connected to a > Powerbook 5,8 via its Firewire 800 or 400 port? I know that my firewire/usb harddisk worked in the past using ohci1394 and sbp2. I did not try with t

Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

2007-11-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin / Hamster
Hi On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:55:32AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28 2007, at 10:59 -0500, P Kapat wrote: > > Hi Elimar, > > > > On 11/27/07, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 the mental interface of > > > P Kapat told: > > > > > > [...] > >

Re: New appletouch driver test wanted

2007-09-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:15:52AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 23:12 +0200, Sven Anders wrote: > > > > - PowerBook Oct 2005- > >(Touchpad's USB ID 0x0214, 0x0215 or 0x0216) > > 0x0214 here according to usbview. same result for 0x0215 here. Gaudenz > > > If you want

Re: PB G4, sound and speaker beeps

2007-09-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem with my sound on my PB G4 system. Or rather, a quite > specific one, because sound works, I can listen to music and stuff. > > Only, I can't get any of those pcspkr beeps, like printf "\a".

Re: radeon driver updates for mac laptops

2007-08-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:51:35AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:12 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > - The output is cloned to the external output (this is what I want), but > > the resolution is not adaptad to the capabilities of the beamer.

Re: Please unban S. Luther from debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org

2007-08-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:53:36PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:09:33PM +0200, xavier grave a écrit : > > Le jeudi 30 août 2007 à 12:37 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > > > > Note that i seem to be banned again from the debian-powerpc mailing > > > list > > Hell

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi. I can't comment o Gerfried's problems, but I have two things which > are severely annoying in a recent Debian install: > > * suspend to RAM only works with kernel 2.6.21 (I tried the one that is > shipped with Debian). > >

Re: Recent posts to -powerpc*

2007-08-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:49:20PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi Sven > > > > In due respect, but this post is totally inappropriate for > > debian-powerpc. Stop this or at least take it elsewhere! > > Where ? I'd sugg

Bug#436450: RFH: mol -- The Mac-on-Linux emulator

2007-08-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi The Mac-On-Linux packages are formally team maintained, but actually I'm the only active maintainer and my time is quite limited. This is why it took quite long to prepare the long overdue update to support the latest kernels. I would be glad to welcome some more

Re: Ban for debian-powerp on Sven Luther lifted.

2007-07-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Sven I already asked you off list to stop your rants about Debian politics on this list and I do so again for one last time on list. If you are unable to restrict yourself to purely technical posts then I will ask the listmasters to reinstall the ban. Please accept that others in Debian don'

Re: alsaconf does it but reboot kills it

2007-07-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:43:20PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 16:26 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > alsaconf is pretty useless for powermacs. You just have two options, > > either your sound chip is supported by snd-aoa or you are stuck with > &g

Re: alsaconf does it but reboot kills it

2007-07-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:29:09PM +0900, 2g wrote: > i now have stable & unstable on my iBookG4 > > both was making sounds when i tested it by mpg321 > during the install and dist-upgrade process > > but both lose sound whenever i reboot > in stable re-alsaconf will bring it back > in unstable a

Re: G4 Powerbook System Fan UBUNTU Feisty

2007-07-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:14:14PM +0200, Andreas Schreiner wrote: > > > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:28:45PM -0400, Matthew Polashek wrote: > >>I am running Ubuntu Feistey on a G4 Powerbook 17 1.5 and the processor > >>fan doesn't seem to kick on. Any suggestions? > > I a

Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:43:44PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > Dear all > > sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot > I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines > that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas

Re: Trouble with MOL networking

2006-10-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:42:45AM +0200, Francesco Pedrini wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm expiriencing some problem with networking on MOL. > I've installed the recent MOL packages from unstable (0.9.71~pre9) with > tiger support, Os X boot and run fine, but doesn't recognise any > network inter

Re: RfT: MOL 0.9.71~pre9 uploaded to unstable

2006-10-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:02:27AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:44:20AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I agree that the out of tree module building for MOL should be done in > > linux-modules-extra-2.6. This was the main reason why I did not > &g

Re: RfT: MOL 0.9.71~pre9 uploaded to unstable

2006-10-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
ven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:13:47AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Now, it would make sense to add the kernel modules to the out-of-tree > > package > > Bastian Blank is working on. I wanted to do this myself, but clear

RfT: MOL 0.9.71~pre9 uploaded to unstable

2006-10-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi This is a request for testers. I just uploaded a new version of Mac-on-Linux to unstable. Please test the new versions and report bugs. I'm specially interested in tests of Mac OS 9.x and earlier and earlier versions of Mac OS X as I can't test these myself. This new version of MOL should sup

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:20:43PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:24:41AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > ofpathname is part of the ibm-powerpc-utils package (not the same as the > > package currently in debian), and Aurelien Gerome is packaging it, since > > yaboot also n

Re: Debian installer/live stock kernels iMac G5

2006-07-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > What package do I file the bug against? hw-detect Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ pgp937Dw2ZyoP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: suspend-to-disk doesn't work with DRI on albook with ATI Radeon 9600

2006-06-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:48:56AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 21:09 +0200, ruben wrote: > > > > Jun 14 20:11:07 guava kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102 > > Jun 14 20:11:07 guava kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.24.0 20060225 on > > minor 0 > > Jun 14 20:11:19

suspend-to-disk doesn't work with DRI on albook with ATI Radeon 9600

2006-06-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Since upgrading to Xorg 7.0 I have 3D accelerated graphics working with DRI and the r300 driver. But this breaks suspend-to-disk. The computer resumes, but X does not restart. I have to kill the X server and restart it manually. If I disable DRI (by not loading the X module) suspend-to-disk w

Re: how to build Xorg?

2006-03-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:37:59AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main > to /etc/apt/sources.list > > I added > > Package: * > Pin: release a=sarge-backports > Pin-Priority: 200 > > Package: xorg-x11 > Pin: release a=sarge-backports > Pin-P

Re: MOL Status

2006-03-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:43:46PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:10:14AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:58:22PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > > > Hello there list, > > > > > > I

Re: MOL Status

2006-03-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:03:45PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:40:29 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > I'm not sure what's the problem here. For me the same version works. But I > > also used the drivers and modules from that version. Pro

[PATCH] sound for pb 5,8

2006-03-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I adopted the changes Ben Collins did in the Ubuntu kerenel to the latest Powerpc git kernel (paulus's tree). This should make sound working on the Powerbook 5,8. The patch will should apply to any recent 2.6.16-rc? kernel. I attached the patch in case you are interested. As I'm not sure i

Re: MOL Status

2006-03-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:58:22PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Hello there list, > > I just wanted to report that mol-0.9.71pre8 works beautifully and loads > Tiger just fine. > You can download the sources here: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/mol-0.9.71_pre8.tar.bz2 I'm currently wor

Re: Sarge on iBook G3 with de_CH Keyboard

2006-02-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Thomas Huesser wrote: > "Page Up" (should be "Fn" + "Arrow Up") > "Page Down" (should be "Fn" + "Arrow Down") > "@" (I think this should be "Alt" + "g" ??) > > I really would like to be able to write the @-symbol. > > My XF86Config-4 contains the foll

Re: network hardware not detected using Debian network installer

2006-02-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:33:18PM +0100, eric.bachard wrote: > Hi, > > Before to reinstall on a new hard disk, I have tested both the debian and > ubuntu installers for a network install (to avoid to download all the > Debian .iso's). > > My machine is a powerbook SD 1,25GHz, from Oct 2004, an

Re: trackpad show gives an error

2006-02-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Sammy wrote: > Well I was able to get the bz2 file (v0.08) from http://www.popies.net/atp/ > using wget from bash. I see a make file that puts the compiled target (a .o > file I believe?) to /2.6.8-powerpc/build which doesn't exist, so maybe I > shou

Re: trackpad show gives an error

2006-02-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:45:46AM +, Sammy wrote: > when I type "trackpad show" I get the following message: > writing /dev/adb: No such device or address > > I believe my touchpad (PowerBook G4 - Albook - 1.67) is not configured at all > but I do not know how to make it work. The trackp

Re: ltrace broken?

2006-02-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:39:53PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Is ltrace working for anyone else in current unstable? Works OK for me: $ uname -r 2.6.16-rc2-g8305f19b-dirty $ md5sum /usr/bin/ltrace 2efe4c05fd29b07850b9e0fcbecfde57 /usr/bin/ltrace ltrace Version 0.3.36-2, libc6 2.3.5-13, lib

sound on pb5,8

2006-02-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I try to get sound support on my new powerbook 5,8 (Oct 2005, 15"). If I add the layout-id of my sound chip in sound/ppc/pmac.c (see attached patch). The beep starts working and I see 2 other outputs in alsamixer, but they are muted and I can't increase their volumes. Any ideas what needs to be

Re: d-i kernel

2005-12-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Johannes Berg schrieb: Hi, Looking into installing on a hires powerbook, which kernel version do the d-i images now have? The powerbook5,8 is not yet supported. AFAIK. I had to compile a custom kernel with everything built in and to reenable devfs. With this kernel d-i worked just fine. Boot

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

2005-11-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:50:28PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:35:19PM +, Chris Burdess wrote: > > > I can confirm all the above. Regarding suspend, it seems to work (with > > pbbuttonsd) but oopses on wakeup. > > There are a bunch of USB bugs that causes problem

Re: 2.6.14 USB vs. sleep issues

2005-11-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Ben Benjamin Herrenschmidt schrieb: The latest patch that is candidate for upstream is: I have the same USB wakeup problem with my new powerbook 5,8 (oct 2005 15"). Without the patch I get a kernel oops on wakeup just like the others. With this patch applied (and the pb 5,8 basic enableme

Re: mouseemu fails on 2.6.14 ?

2005-11-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Michal wrote: > > hi - > > > > $ /etc/init.d/mouseemu restart > > > > > > ioctl32(mouseemu:2395): Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(80045564){00} > > > arg(0001) on /dev/input/uinput > > > > > > ioctl UI_SET_KEYBIT: Invalid argument > > > > That's a new

Re: 2.6 kernel - problems with AlBook

2005-11-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Chris Burdess schrieb: Could anyone else try this kernel config on an AlBook (the model is PowerBook5,8 if that helps) ? You probably need a kernel with this patch applied: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-October/020222.html Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

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