Re: Try nv driver on jessie

> On the other Hand seems there will be no other version for ppc64 linux. As > mainteners are missing. > > Thanks again! > > Le jeu. 23 janv. 2025, 16:12, Ken Cunningham > a écrit : > a number of users find SeaLion quite useful on ppc linux. > > github —

Re: Try nv driver on jessie

a number of users find SeaLion quite useful on ppc linux.github — wicknix/SeaLionI see a new build for ppc linux happened in November.There is a newer version since then, but it awaits a linux build.KOn Jan 23, 2025, at 06:42, Raphaël Rignier wrote:Le mar. 21 janv. 2025 à 19:06, Raphaël Rignier <

Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

On 2024-12-16, at 12:38 PM, Herr Montag wrote: > Hi, > > Am 2024-12-16 21:17, schrieb Riccardo Mottola: > >> TenFourFox was is somehwat usable actually, of course not general browsing >> anymore, but specific friendly sites... > > I actually try SeaLion [^1] on my PowerMacG511,2 (2 Ghz, 12 G

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

If anyone goes through all the steps to get to the point where they could try building Firefox on one of these builders through to completion, and perhaps downloading it to their local machine for testing, I would very much appreciate a walkthrough of all the steps involved. I realize I could s

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

> On Sep 28, 2024, at 6:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 06:14 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> But as detailed in the thread last November, I ran into trouble getting a >> build >> system working in debian PPC for the current

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

> On Sep 28, 2024, at 05:58, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > Firefox has been broken for some years. > > Of course it will be great if someday it were fixed. I have some practical experience coding in the FireFox code base— a few years ago Riccardo and I collaborated for a

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

Firefox has been broken for some years. That’s not really a matter of opinion :) :) Of course it will be great if someday it were fixed. Epiphany is OK for simple things like viewing the gnome help files, but you will likely find as I did it can’t handle most current web sites you may try. J

Re: Another plug for a debian PowerPC FAQ for Apple systems ...

On 2024-09-27, at 4:50 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I think there's a curated FAQ for PowerPC on the Debian wiki at > . Also see > . > > Jeff Thanks Jeff, I recall you were one of the folks interested in spearheading a curr

Another plug for a debian PowerPC FAQ for Apple systems ...

As per the last time this came up a couple of years ago, the exact same set of questions with the exact same series of answers keep coming up every few months on this list regarding installing debian on PowerPC macs. We had a few keen volunteers back then who were interested in spearheading such

Another plug for a debian PowerPC FAQ for Apple systems ...

As per the last time this came up a couple of years ago, the same set of questions with the same series of answers keep coming up every few months on this list regarding installing debian on PowerPC macs. We had a few keen volunteers back then who were interested in spearheading a FAQ to help p

Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

On 2024-09-27, at 2:50 PM, João wrote: > Hello Claudia, > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:47:54 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote: >> As browser I use links2, not very comfortable. > > You may want to try Netsurf (https://packages.debian.org/sid/netsurf-gtk), > depending on what you do it may work better t

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

So the key points are: 1. you have to use the special ISO, and no other ISO than the latest special ISO should be used. Right now, I think you're still waiting to hear which ISO that is. 2. Do NOT believe any other website you might find or YouTube channel you might find that claims to tell you

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

There was talk a few years ago about an installation FAQ for Apple PowerPC systems, but in the end, the idea was vetoed. Look backward though this mailing list -- you will find someone has asked the exact same question recently. It comes up every few weeks / months. In the answer to that questi

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

> On Apr 8, 2024, at 1:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 19:38 +1200, Mike Hosken wrote: >> As for Firefox thanks for the info, hopefully it will get fixed as it would >> make >> ppc64 still very useable in this modern era. > > Well, someone interested in

How to snapshot debian

What's a relialble way to snapshot debian installations? Ken

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

Hi Adrian, I’m getting stuck building firefox, and as you’re building it already, how do we get past this? thanks, Ken I did this: $ apt-get build-dep firefox $ apt source firefox $ apt install python-is-python3 $ cd firefox-120.0 $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc but I keep getting this: ——

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

I added an 8GB swapfile, and (slowly) got this backtrace: # cat error.txt Thread 1 "firefox" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. i32_load8_u (addr=2014643200, mem=) at rlbox.wasm.c:146 146 rlbox.wasm.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 i32_load8_u (addr=2014643200, mem=) at rlb

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

Trying to run firefox under gdb with the debug symbols installed appears to result in an out-of-memory situation on my DualG5 with 3.5GB ram, I’m afraid. Perhaps someone else has a system with more memory, or set up better than mine, that could help. Ken - $ gdb firefox GNU gdb (Debian 13.2-1

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

aul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hello! > >> On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 15:39 -0800, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> on my system I had another segfault, in libxul. > > A more detailed backtrace would be useful. libxul is basically all of > Firefox, so referring to

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

> On Nov 20, 2023, at 12:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM Ken Cunningham > wrote: >> >> On 2023-11-20, at 2:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> >>>> On Nov 20, 2023, at 10:56 AM, Jeroen Diederen &g

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

On 2023-11-20, at 3:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 22:32 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Anyways, this particular crash a known upstream bug in Firefox [2]. I wonder >> whether >> it might be fixed by this particular patch [3]. > > I have rebuild the

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

On 2023-11-20, at 2:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > >> On Nov 20, 2023, at 10:56 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >> >> Firefox does not work. > > Did you try the latest version 119? > > If there is a patch which fixes the crash on big-endian targets, we could > include it in

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

is no doubt sinful: ln -s libffi.so.8 libffi.so.6 Ken > On Nov 19, 2023, at 4:48 PM, DistroHopper39B Business > wrote: > > SeaLion (https://github.com/wicknix/SeaLion > <https://github.com/wicknix/SeaLion>) is the best choice for PowerPC. > > On Sun,

What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

I am aware of a few projects out there working to try to keep a repackaged TenFourFox going that have *.deb archives available, and I think there are some official channels for a few different browsers inside debian (Firefox, Epiphany). Does anyone have or know about a browser they use on debia

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 13:53 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> The blocksruntime library is easy to build and available broadly, >> in case just including it becomes the easier path. >> >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

The blocksruntime library is easy to build and available broadly, in case just including it becomes the easier path. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libb/libblocksruntime/libblocksruntime_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz Ken On 2023-05-30, at 1:48 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Lennart! >

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

Your issue is in French, but it looks like the one I recently faced as well if I am reading it correctly. I fixed it using the information on this page: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75807/no-public-key-available-on-apt-get-update I hope this helps you too. Ken > On Apr 9, 2023

Re: Seeking for help with Debian 11 (2022-03-28 image) - can't install GRUB

One of the key things to know is that only certain very specific boot images will work. These have been hand-modified by Adrian to boot. Attempting to use any other random boot images will fail. If you look back through Adrian’s messages in this mailing list, he announces the latest boot image

> 1000 updates, nearly 1 GB, all successful...

Just a touch of feedback, keep everyone keen… After being away from my DualG5 ppc64 debian system a while, I booted it up and ran an update today 1094 updates, just shy of 1 GB in total, all downloaded and successfully installed, without a single hiccup… Now that is — sweet. K

Re: SSH, Telnet and FTP

LLVM doesn’t work on Darwin PPC at all due to ABI inconsistencies, so that is useless on MacOS at present (perhaps someone like Adrian could fix it). Homebrew only supports MacOS 10.15 and up, so that is useless on older darwin systems too. Current ssh may well compile on darwin PPC uisng Macpo

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

No doubt you know, but I don’t see anyone has said (may have missed it) that you will need to re-run thermal calibration after monkeying with the CPUs as otherwise they are not set up right. To do that you will need to get that machine to boot from that ASD CD, one way or another. Ken > On Ma

Re: GRUB Multiboot

> On Mar 29, 2022, at 9:54 AM, Stan Johnson wrote: > > Fortunately, for x86_64 there is rEFIt, which like yaboot appears to no > longer be maintained (but it still works). FYI this is the defacto successor to rEFIt, actively maintained, and is what I have been using as the bootmanager on m

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

the defaults. That should work. If it doesn’t work, time for a new log I guess. Ken > On Mar 27, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > On 3/27/22 21:34, Ken Cunningham wrote: >>> On Mar 27, 2022, at 6:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >>> >>> https:/

Re: netinst ppc64 2022-03-24 fails to install GRUB boot loader

> On Mar 27, 2022, at 6:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank > > Use the 32-bit version of grubfix32.sh, even on the 64-bit install. > Use /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sda3 when fixing grub. > > Jeff > FYI Adrian’s ISO works perfectly for me on both 32

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

> On Mar 26, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Stan Johnson wrote: > > Your steps 2 and 3 should not be necessary. It should be possible to use > manual partitioning (I'm testing that next); otherwise, it will not be > possible to boot multiple operating systems. > >> >> they just can't believe that is al

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

I think that people are used to installing linux on PPC Macs being very very very difficult, with many arcane manual steps and many hours needed on every walkthru available anywhere on the internet. So when the steps are: 1. use the right ISO (hard enough to find, but once you have it...) 2

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

25, 2022, at 10:09 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > > On 3/25/22 10:12 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> Completely erase the hard drive, until you have a totally blank disk, with >> no partitions whatsoever on it. >> >> To do this, I mounted the HD using Firewire disc

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

Completely erase the hard drive, until you have a totally blank disk, with no partitions whatsoever on it. To do this, I mounted the HD using Firewire disc mode from another system, and formatted it until it was bare. Then let the CD installer ISO take care of doing everything. Let it use the

Re: yaboot installation media

A previous blessed ISO (Apr 17 2021) booted my IMac G4 without any troubles. Then I just let all the defaults have their way with the machine, and wound up with a beautiful GRUB-booting system running debian 11 that has been running ever since. So there is no specific “G4” problem with GRUB….

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

> On Mar 20, 2022, at 9:55 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > >> On Mar 20, 2022, at 5:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 11:40 AM Ken Cunningham >> wrote: > >> If the webmaster would provide the actual

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

Jeff, the debian installation process moved to GRUB a while back. I still think the monthly install/setup FAQ would be a good plan, by the way. There was a flurry of interest for a short while. Best to all, Ken > On Mar 20, 2022, at 6:12 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2022

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

gt; > Hi Ken, > > > Ken Cunningham wrote: >> >> All your excellent work deserves to be used! So make it easier for >> people, is all I'm about here. > > I understand where you are. I have long experience with PPC and Linux > and yet an install wa

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

On 2022-02-01 01:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Ken! On 1/31/22 17:09, Ken Cunningham wrote: But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it seems, from the 1,200 questions over and over and over about it on the Linux on PowerPC Macs facebook group (and the 1,199

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

I suspect we'd all learn something in the process. Ken On 2022-01-31 08:16, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:09 AM Ken Cunningham wrote: Thanks. I’m in great shape, everything running fairly well on my machines. But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it s

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

one with writing skills and interest might be interested, in time. Best to all, Ken > On Jan 31, 2022, at 1:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hi Ken! > > On 1/30/22 22:29, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> I am noticing there is a tremendous amount of

Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

I am noticing there is a tremendous amount of misinformation and outright confusion floating around about installing debian (current) on PowerPC Apple systems. Current walkthroughs are telling people what seems to me to be the completely wrong way to go about things. Older debian and other walkt

lazarus-ide odd library error: PPC64_ADDR16_HI reloc at 0x0000000010303aea for symbol `gtk_marshal_VOID__POINTER_POINTER' out of range

I'm hoping for some ideas from those who have been around a while. I use lazarus sometimes, and I installed it on powerpc-32bit debian 11, and saw this error: startlazarus: error while loading shared libraries: R_PPC64_ADDR16_HI reloc at 0x10303aea for symbol `gtk_marshal_VOID__POINTER_PO

Re: efficient use of http://snapshot.debian.org/ ?

ot as yet get it to work properly... I'll report back if I sort out how to make that work. Ken On 2021-11-13 15:37, Ken Cunningham wrote: When trying to install packages for both the 32bit and 64bit powerpc version of debian sid, it is pretty common to find a situation where the packag

efficient use of http://snapshot.debian.org/ ?

When trying to install packages for both the 32bit and 64bit powerpc version of debian sid, it is pretty common to find a situation where the package can't be installed due to a missing supporting library. The latest examples I came across were installing vlc, ffmpeg, firefox, and thunderbird, all

PowerMac7,3 DualG5 - simple recipe to get Apple on-board sound working

I thought I would share that I got the Apple on-board sound working correctly on this system after some moderate futzing around, with these settings, and no additional parts needed: $ cat /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file contains the names of kernel

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

> On Nov 6, 2021, at 9:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Not sure why that didn't work for you, it always worked fine for me when I > tested it. I suspect I know what might have happened. When I first installed debian 64b from the 2021-04-17 image onto the DualG5, it would not

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

ebian-ports/ > <http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/> experimental main > > see here > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental > <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental> > > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021, 10:42 AM Ken Cunningham <mailto:ken.cunningham.web...@gmai

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

ral more to go! Best, Ken > On Nov 6, 2021, at 1:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hello Ken! > > On 11/6/21 01:47, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> $ ls -la /lib/firmware/radeon/R3* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Aug 24 08:46 /lib/firmware/radeon/R300_cp.

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

I suspect I might have to create a new kernel with this firmware embedded in it? https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/loading-firmware-into-kernel-at-boot-4175495624/

PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

Wondering if there are any ideas on how to approach the mystery of the R300_cp.bin firmware that will not load: [2.627772] radeon :f0:10.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2) [2.627802] radeon :f0:10.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

It appears that when building portable code, the ax_gcc_archflag.m4 macro clears -mcpu for almost every arch except powerpc: https://github.com/libffi/libffi/blob/master/m4/ax_gcc_archflag.m4#L241 case $host_cpu in i*86|x86_64*|amd64*) flag_prefixes="$flag_prefixes -mcpu= -m";; esac The fa

success on a PowerPC iMac 6,1

Hello, I thought I would mention a successful debian install on a PowerPC iMac 6,1: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 999.97MHz revision: 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303) bogomips: 66.56 timebase: 33280357 platform