iMac G5.

2008-02-05 Thread Matt Gracie
-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 machine locks up cold. It's not even accessible over the network and curr

Re: Boot problems on a B&W G3.

2005-08-15 Thread Matt Gracie
Derrik Pates wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 03:44:10PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: I've been doing a little more work on this. As far as I can tell, the error in the debian packaged kernels is because the kernel modules included in the 2.6 series kernels are different than the ones in the

Re: Boot problems on a B&W G3.

2005-08-13 Thread Matt Gracie
Matt Gracie wrote: I tried to install Debian on a Blue and White G3/400 (rev. 2) last night. The installation goes fine, and the install kernel (2.4.18, I believe) runs without issue. Whenever I try to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, though, the machine panics on boot and tells me that it can't

Boot problems on a B&W G3.

2005-08-12 Thread Matt Gracie
I tried to install Debian on a Blue and White G3/400 (rev. 2) last night. The installation goes fine, and the install kernel (2.4.18, I believe) runs without issue. Whenever I try to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, though, the machine panics on boot and tells me that it can't find /dev/console. It's

Sunbird.

2004-11-20 Thread Matt Gracie
Is anyone working on packaging Sunbird for Deb PPC? I know it's only a prerelease, but I rather like the OS X port of it that I played around with, and it would be nice to have a calendaring program on my laptop. --Matt

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-17 Thread Matt Gracie
On May 16, 2004, at 7:39 PM, Ron Murray wrote: I don't know what a personality card is either, sorry. But you're right, that would mean you're stuck with Apple support. A personality card is an add-on card for certain Powermacs (Beige G3s, 6500s, and a couple of others I can't remember) t

Kernel image.

2004-04-12 Thread Matt Gracie
Does anyone know if there is an expected date for a powerpc kernel image from 2.6.x to go into the official repositories? I'm sort of hesitant to compile my own -- this is for my work laptop (Pismo), and I'd rather not risk something going awry. --Matt