Bug#1063738: mariadb: FTBFS on armel, armhf, powerpc, x32, hppa: size of array compile_time_assert is negative

2024-02-11 Thread otto
Source: mariadb Version: 1:10.11.7-1 Forwarded: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-33429 Tags: confirmed, help, ftbfs User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: armel, armhf X-Debbugs-CC: debian-...@lists.debian.org User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc X-Debbugs-CC: debian-pow

Bug#1053486: mariadb: FTBFS on ppc64: Post-build test suite fails on main.mysql_upgrade

2023-10-04 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Source: mariadb Version: 1:10.11.5-1 Tags: upstream, confirmed, help, ftbfs X-Debbugs-CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64 Builds on ppc64 repeatedly failed on test main.mysql_upgrade with error message: main.mysql_upgrade 'innodb'

Bug#1029374: mariadb: FTBFS on ppc64: main.func_json_notembedded very long output and crash

2023-01-21 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Source: mariadb Version: 1:10.11.1-1 Tags: upstream, confirmed, help, ftbfs User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Builds on ppc64 pass but the testsuite that validates that binary works failed with:

Bug#1029372: mariadb: FTBFS on powerpc: Test main.index_merge_innodb runs 150 mins until terminated

2023-01-21 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Source: mariadb Version: 1:10.11.1-1 Tags: upstream, confirmed, help, ftbfs User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc X-Debbugs-CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Builds on powerpc pass but the testsuite that validates that binary works failed with: ... main.subselect_sj2_jcl6 'inn

Bug#1007218: mariadb-10.6: FTBFS on powerpc: test main.grant_kill: Result length mismatch

2022-03-13 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Source: mariadb-10.6 Version: 1:10.6.7-3 Tags: upstream, confirmed, ftbfs User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc Forwarded: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-23915 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Filing this bug for tracking purposes. No help needed from Debian po

Bug#1007216: mariadb-10.6: FTBFS on ppc64: unrecognized opcode tbegin/tabort/tend

2022-03-13 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Source: mariadb-10.6 Version: 1:10.6.7-1 Tags: upstream, confirmed, help, ftbfs User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Builds on ppc64 failed with: [ 48%] Building CXX object extra/mariabackup/CMakeFiles/mbstream.dir/xbstream.cc.o cd /<

Re: [debian-mysql] Bug#1006527: mariadb-10.6: FTBFS on ppc64/ppc64el: htmxlintrin.h errors

2022-03-02 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Control: forwarded -1 https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-27936 This was actually already in progress upstream. Sorry for escalating to list before noticing this.

mariadb-10.6: FTBFS on ppc64/ppc64el: htmxlintrin.h errors

2022-03-02 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello! A recent build regression on ppc64el is preventing a new MariaDB version from migrating from unstable to testing. Could any experts on this list help out? Please use reply-to-all, I don't subscribe to the list. Builds on both ppc64 and ppc64el fail due to misc errors related to htmxlintr

Re: [debian-mysql] Bug#915046: mariadb-10.3: Please build with -latomic where necessary

2018-12-22 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello John! Do you have any estimate when you could finalize the patch, so it can be included in the next upload? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz kirjoitti pe 21. joulukuuta 2018 klo 19.20: > Hello! > > On 12/16/18 10:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > That's odd. I rebased it against the l

Re: [debian-mysql] Bug#915046: mariadb-10.3: Please build with -latomic where necessary

2018-12-21 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello! pe 21. jouluk. 2018 klo 19.20 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de) kirjoitti: > > Hello! > > On 12/16/18 10:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > That's odd. I rebased it against the latest mariadb-10.3 package in > > experimental, i.e. version 1:10.3.11-1~exp1. >

Re: [debian-mysql] Bug#915046: mariadb-10.3: Please build with -latomic where necessary

2018-12-16 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
su 16. jouluk. 2018 klo 22.10 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de) kirjoitti: > > On 12/16/18 9:04 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Can you please provide a link to where you upstreamed it? > > It's in the "Forwarded" field of this bug repo

Re: [debian-mysql] Bug#915046: mariadb-10.3: Please build with -latomic where necessary

2018-12-16 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
> Attaching an updated version of the patch. > > Please note, without the patch, mariadb-10.3 will not build on mips32 and > several other 32-bit platforms. Thanks! Can you please provide a link to where you upstreamed it? We already have 21 patches and maintaining them year after year has its p

Making a d-i USB memory stick under Mac OS X

2006-11-19 Thread Otto Maddox
no device node. Can somebody please give me some instructions on how to do this under Mac OS X? Thanks. -- Otto Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different…

Re: mouseemu

2006-03-29 Thread Otto Maddox
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:23:11 +0200 (CEST), "Michael Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The state of the modifier key is kept by the X server, so you need > to send the modifier before you send a regular key event > (disregarding mouse events for a moment here). We could postpone the > modifier

Re: mouseemu

2006-03-27 Thread Otto Maddox
Hi Michael, On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:55:21 +0100 (CET), "Michael Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I am now getting button 2 and button 3 events sent, but the > > modifiers are getting sent too. > > That's per design, and was done to fix bug #304328. Maybe the fix > broke your case, though.

mouseemu

2006-03-25 Thread Otto Maddox
I am using Debian testing on a PowerBook G4 667 MhZ (DVI). So far, it's been going very nicely. mouseemu 0.15-2 is installed, and I want to configure for the single-button touchpad similarly to Apple X11, so that alt/option + click is button 2, command + click is button 3, and to disable the s

Re: Audio on PowerBook G4

2006-03-24 Thread Otto Maddox
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:56:28 +0100 (CET), "Michael Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Check that dmasound-pmac and i2c-keywest are actually being loaded - they > should appear in the lsmod output. Thanks, Michael, for your help. It was due to a rather obscure reason that I have now resolved.

Audio on PowerBook G4

2006-03-23 Thread Otto Maddox
Hi, I have installed Debian testing on a PowerBook G4 667 MhZ (the one with DVI output and Radeon 7500). So, I followed the instructions at http://www.cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ to get audio output working. In particular, I created /etc/modutils/sound with the following contents: a

Re: X protocol errors

2006-03-20 Thread Otto Maddox
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:12:18 +0100, "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 21:04 +, Otto Maddox wrote: > > Every single X application crashes with an error message like this: > > > > X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window

X protocol errors

2006-03-19 Thread Otto Maddox
Hi, I am trying to run X applications remotely on a Debian Sarge PowerPC server, and have them display locally on my Mac OS X (10.4.5) workstation which has Apple X11. Every single X application crashes with an error message like this: X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on pr

Errors with sarge netinst CD

2006-02-15 Thread Otto Maddox
I'm having troubles getting Debian PowerPC onto my PowerBook G4 (TiBook III). I downloaded the debian-31r1a-powerpc-netinst.iso image from cdimage.debian.org, and burned it with Disk Utility in Mac OS X (Tiger). The problem is that when booting, the installer complains that the CD cannot be read.

Re: MOL Login

2004-12-07 Thread Thomas Otto
this happens every time i start up OS X in MOL and enter my username/pass... a window pops up to say "unable to log you in at this time", and then it logs me in! is there a way to stop the pop up window as it is clearly in error... Well... me too! 10.2 didn't do this, just 10.3 started showing

Re: umounting cryptoloop before swsusp / suspend to ram

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Otto
Can anyone share with me how to solve the following problem. I keep some important data on an cryptoloop. But i have to umount it before suspend to ram / swsusp. On i386 i had configured acpi so when i pressed the power button the system umounted cryptoloop and did swsusp. Is this possible on ppc

Re: Does Airport extreme work with debian? - NO

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Otto
this is my first post on debian-powerpc list. i look up the archives because i'm going to buy a new ibook 12", but i saw that the Airport extreme wireless card doesn't work. is it true? is there a project to make it work with debian? searching with google seems that it's false: i found this http

Re: Which scripts are run on suspend (iBook)?

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Otto
I want to lock my X display with xlock prior to suspending my iBook yet I couldn't find any scripts that are run just before the lid is closed or the powerbutton pressed. you probably want a current version of pbbuttonsd which conflicts with pmud as it provides all the functionality of pmud and

Which scripts are run on suspend (iBook)?

2004-08-22 Thread Thomas Otto
Hi! I want to lock my X display with xlock prior to suspending my iBook yet I couldn't find any scripts that are run just before the lid is closed or the powerbutton pressed. /etc/power/{pwrctl-local,*} is only run when an AC adapter is attached or detached yet I couldn'd find anything which

Re: hfs+ fs with linux - only ro after some time error

2004-08-15 Thread Thomas Otto
[...] Oh, and after 32 rw mounts, you need to use the hfpmount on it, which will fail but will allow the kernel to mount it. I use 2.6.7. I had a similar problem: with the early 2.6 testing kernels I could write on the hfs+ volume just fine (also with 2.4 benh kernels after the new ardistech h

Re: hfs+ fs with linux - only ro after some time error

2004-08-15 Thread Thomas Otto
[...] Oh, and after 32 rw mounts, you need to use the hfpmount on it, which will fail but will allow the kernel to mount it. I use 2.6.7. I had a similar problem: with the early 2.6 testing kernels I could write on the hfs+ volume just fine (also with 2.4 benh kernels after the new ardistech h

Poweron timer on iBook G3 (PPC_RTAS?)

2004-05-28 Thread Thomas Otto
Hi! I just noticed OS X allows to set a time at which the laptop automatically turns on, this seems to correlate to the kernel option "Support for RTAS (RunTime Abstraction Services) in /proc (PPC_RTAS) [N/y/?]" which says "[...] if you power off your machine at night but want it running when you

Re: Questions about kernel crypto section

2003-12-30 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a question about the use of the crypto api in new 2.4 kernels. My /home partition is on a cryptoloop made using a 2.4 kernel pre-crypto (2.4.20), patches from kerneli for kernel and util-linux. Now, with new kernel (2.4.23-ben1) I cannot access to this partition. I think this is because n

Radeons and VGA-Out? (was: Re: m3mirror problem)

2003-11-28 Thread Thomas Otto
I don't use it myself (my ibook has an M6), but I've seen it work. I have an iBook2 700Mhz with an 16MB M7 Radeon Mobility, is there anything I can do to make use of the VGA-Out, even if it is only X mirroring? -Thomas

Re: 12" G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support

2003-11-19 Thread Thomas Otto
- AirPort Extreme support IIRC this won't happen since Broadcom is refusing to release specs for it :/ (which is why I'll stick to my 700Mhz G3 iBook). See http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/msg00789.html ...maybe write a mail to Apple/Broadcom for some lart

Re: Sound partly broken until reboot

2003-10-31 Thread Thomas Otto
Any ideas, how to fix a situation like this without rebooting? For soundproblems of this sort I have a little script which just rmmod's and then again modprobe's the kernelmodules dmasound_pmac dmasound_core and soundcore in that order. After that usually everything works again. -Tho

Re: cryptopatch for kernel 2.4.21 fails on ibook

2003-10-20 Thread Thomas Otto
Well, the crypto patch doesn't work with 2.4.22 because it is already *in* this Kernel ;-). Have a look in the .config file, at the end you will see several lines CONFIG_CRYPTO[...]. If they aren't there reconfigure your kernel with cryptographic support. -Thomas well actually they are in the

Re: cryptopatch for kernel 2.4.21 fails on ibook

2003-10-20 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a kernel (2.4.22 Benh) that works fine except for decrypting. Are you using the kernel sources from Debian, or Ben's tree itself? well i suppose its debian sources, but havent downloaded it myself. just mirrored the whole system from a friend with same hardware. as i understood cryptopa

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-14 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a friend who did it but he had to make a FAT partition to share a partition because linux does not write on usf. Is this statement still true? Can macosx r/o on ext2-3? MacOS can't read ext2/ext3. But Linux can read USF UFS, I assume. Linux can read it, see /usr/src/linux/Documentatio

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll need to repeat *all* of the bootargs when you run `setenv', then do not run savenv, go straight to `bootd'. Thanks for the clarification, Thomas. Erm - did I miss the tag here ;-) ? No sarcasm intended, the instruction was for the OP (could have made t

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. ;-) I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll need to repeat *all*

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a great AmigaONE computer with DebianPPC Sid (unstable) version. Today I have installed, with apt-get all latest updates, but, when the computer reset and inizialize the system, it lockup at this point: Setting Up General Console Font How I can restore my system and correct this error?

Re: Voice-over-IP solutions for woody?

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas Otto
I'm looking for a usable/stable (but I don't mind if it's simple, it's only for casual 1-to-1 talks with another debian person) net phone solution that I can run without having to upgrade to testing or unstable. Has anyone already found this? (I could probably also live with a gnome 2 install

Re: dma_sound problems on 12" pbook

2003-08-23 Thread Thomas Otto
That is expected since dmasound doesn't support recording. You'll have to wait for 2.6 with alsa - see some older threat here. You mean the sound input on Powerbooks G4 / iBooks will work?? :- Cl! digger vermont wrote: On the alsa mailing list I've asked if the reason for no record

Re: dma_sound problems on 12" pbook

2003-08-22 Thread Thomas Otto
When the old process is still arround try finding and killing it via 'fuser /dev/dsp' No, that's not the problem. I double checked that, e.g.: ~$ fuser /dev/dsp ~$ cat /dev/dsp cat: /dev/dsp: No such device or address That is expected since dmasound doesn't support recording. You'll have to w

Re: dma_sound problems on 12" pbook

2003-08-22 Thread Thomas Otto
While it usually plays sound fine the first time I open the device I get ENXIO or EBUSY back from /dev/dsp when trying to read or write from the device afterwards. Kernel is 2.4.21-ben2. Any ideas? Regards, Thats a common Linux problem since the /dev/dsp (IIRC digital sound port) device can onl

Re: Why is my ibook getting so hot ?

2003-08-18 Thread Thomas Otto
I'll test the laptop patch. But it's very big and most probably it will not apply agains a recent ben-kernel. Hehe, it already is in then latest 2.4.21-benh2 kernel ;-). You should have a /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode file. Read /Documentation/laptop-mode.txt (wc -l only 72!) for more info, the

Re: lcd resolution scaling?

2003-08-16 Thread Thomas Otto
Do ibook kernels support scaling of other resolutions to a laptop's native res? I understand the rage mobility can do this with little or no (in later revisions?) performance loss, and it would solve some issues nicely, such as mol support, hard-coded games, etc. Try Ctrl Alt +/- which will s

Re: Cube as a firewall/router - Comments anyone?

2003-08-12 Thread Thomas Otto
With a FW port at my Mac and my x86 Audigy soundcard I could try this, yet FW cables quite expensive. I don't know about your whereabouts, but in the Netherlands FireWire cables are expensive too. A local shop here in germany wanted 15€ for a 3m calbe. I think i could by 30m of Ethernet cabl

Re: iBook internal speakers volume

2003-08-12 Thread Thomas Otto
I have an iBook 900 Mhz on which I have recently installed Debian sid. I have a little trouble with the internal speakers : they do work, but the sound is extremely low. Changing the volume in aumix has no effect. I have read that the speaker volume is mapped to the "Spkr" channel of aumix, s

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-11 Thread Thomas Otto
I can only give you some hints nontheless: Try to autogenerate a new XF86Config-4 via "xf86config" (this worked perfecty fine for me, ATI Radeon on an ibook) 4) the ATI card I believe is a NexusGA, because it matches specs on the ATI website. But the chip on it says "ATI Rage 128 3

Re: Cube as a firewall/router - Comments anyone?

2003-08-11 Thread Thomas Otto
How about adding an extra ethernet connection to the cube? Possible? You can't add an internal one, but a USB one should be OK for a typical cable or DSL modem link. Why not use use IP over FireWire? Hehe, nice Idea. Though IIRC despite the RFC IP over FW is not yet completely implemented

Re: DualHead-hack for iBook breaks radeonfb

2003-08-10 Thread Thomas Otto
This http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/adb-31.07.03-000/ (in German) also didn't help? Seems like the 3rd Comment in the description hints at that. I wonder if I should try this hack as well on my 700Mhz Radeon M7 iBook... I never got the VGA-Out working though (not that I tried really har

Re: keyboard problem with 266MHz iMac

2003-08-08 Thread Thomas Otto
The modifier keys don't work for my old iMac /w 266MHz G3 CPU. After fixing the problems with the modelines to get xfree86 running and changing XkbLayout to de_DE to get german umlauts, I don't know how to get chars like @{}[]|~\ hidden somewhere on the third keyboard level. With MacOS I would

Re: X startup... (was Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys)

2003-07-31 Thread Thomas Otto
[ /etc/X11/Xsession.d + ~/.xsession not working ] See Debian bug 195845 for a patch to fix this problem. It shows up if you're using KDM or GDM and selecting a specific session manager (as opposed to the default). Thanks for the hint. Everything is working as expected now, I thought my shel

X startup... (was Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys)

2003-07-30 Thread Thomas Otto
Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap which i load when I login. > It seems everybody does that, instead of fixing the X keymaps... I'm no better myself. :) But where *is* this keymap that will be read at the start of an X session on Debian 3.0. r1 /testing? Um

Re: Wiping out Mac OS X and Mac OS 9

2003-07-30 Thread Thomas Otto
I suppose I can delete hda13 but I would like to clean things a bit. Do I still need "Apple_Driver" partition ? And Apple_Patches ? IIRC, all you need (other than your linux partitions) is the small Apple_Bootstrap partition. You should be able to get rid of the rest of the "Apple_*" partitions

Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys

2003-07-27 Thread Thomas Otto
I basicly "googled my way to freedom", I haven't even found a table with a complete desciption of all xmodmap entrys, e.g. that | is bar. IIRC the YDL pages also have some docs about this. Ah, here they are, right under my nose: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h, just remove the "XK_" from th

Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys

2003-07-26 Thread Thomas Otto
I know I could simply do something like: cd /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz cp mac-usb-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz /etc/console/boottime.gz No! The mac- keymap has includes whereas the boottime keymaps must be a single file. There is a command to resolve all the dependencys and put the include

Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys

2003-07-26 Thread Thomas Otto
I'm missing the bar sign, the @ sign (I had to paste this one from the address in the header), bracketleft, bracketright, EuroSign and I don't know what else on the keyboard on X. Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap which i load when I login. I also had to gene

Re: ibook2

2003-07-26 Thread Thomas Otto
Problem 1: I can't record anything with my soundcard. Playing is no problem. I checked and found out that a call open("/dev/dsp", O_RDONLY); fails, but open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY); succeeds. Some programs (like audacity) will therefore leave my soundcard in a bad state: I am not able to p

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas Otto
Is anybody running reiserfs on an iBook? Opinions? Comments? Gotchas? Shouldn't be a problem of the hardware but rather of the kernel, reiserfsutils etc installed. Yet on problem could be the following with noflushd (c&p from noflushd.sf.net): - Reiserfs journaling bypasses the kernel's del

Re: system clock runs too fast on pb12"

2003-05-31 Thread Thomas Otto
I now experienced that the system clock of my PowerBook 12" runs too fast. I'm adjusting it nearly once an hour using ntpdate now and it seems to change about +1m per hour. I hope this isn't a hardware problem. No, the kernel is making up for the hardware clock which he *thinks* is going 1m per

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-21 Thread Otto Wyss
> > How do I build a powerpc test image with the blessed folder in the root > > on a Debian i386. > > I think that could be the problem. You mean yaboot is within > /install/powermac, right? Not just inside /install? I think that would > definitely be a problem. When I wanted to change systems in

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-20 Thread Otto Wyss
> > A CD should be bootable on a NewWorld if it has a 'blessed' > > folder. And in order for the blessing to work, the folder needs to > > have a Mac-System- type file. > > I talked some weeks ago with Ethan on irc and he told me that > the current (at the time) mkisofs couldn't bless

Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-19 Thread Otto Wyss
I've found another boot CD which boots on my b&w G3 while no Debian CD does: It's "partimage-imac-0.7.0-rc1-bootcd-1.iso.bz2" from Partimage. Could anyone who understands making boot CD's analyze what's the difference between Partimage and Debian CD's? Since Partimage provides sources it should be

Booting Debian versus Suse

2002-04-12 Thread Otto Wyss
I'm still stuck with Debian CD's not booting on my b&w G3 while Suse boots nicely. Is it possible to extract the difference between these CD's? Could anybody help me to extract this infos? O. Wyss -- Author of "Debian partial mirror synch script" ("http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/";)

Re: PowerPC Debian CD's do not boot on my b&w G3 but Suse 7.0 does

2002-03-18 Thread Otto Wyss
> > OpenFirmware 3.1.1" > > > > and your command produces: > > > > cd:,\\tbxi, unknown word > insert : < -- there > Sorry, this is just a typo in the mail. I tried at least 10 different writings and also "hd:,\\:tbxi" which I found in the environment. Each replied with "unknown word". > Do y

Re: PowerPC Debian CD's do not boot on my b&w G3 but Suse 7.0 does

2002-03-17 Thread Otto Wyss
> > CD from an OF prompt? > > You can boot from the CD in OF with boot cd:,\\:tbxi . > Booting into OF shows: OpenFirmware 3.1.1" and your command produces: cd:,\\tbxi, unknown word I also tried "hd:,\\tbxi" with the same answer "unknown word". > > I've heard (without confirmation) that th

Re: PowerPC Debian CD's do not boot on my b&w G3 but Suse 7.0 does

2002-03-17 Thread Otto Wyss
> I had no problems to install Debian on my newly acquired > blue&whit G3 PowerMac AFTER having upgraded the firmware. > The firmware upgrade was on my MacOS 9.2 CD and was > required to upgrade vom MacOS 8.5 to MacOS 9.2. > If you mean the "G3 Firmware Update 1.1" I've done this so long ago I

PowerPC Debian CD's do not boot on my b&w G3 but Suse 7.0 does

2002-03-16 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry for the cross post but I'm not quiet sure where to address this subject. Please reply only in "debian-powerpc". As I said before none of the powerpc Debian Potato CD's nor a recent Debian network CD (I don't remember from where) and neither the woody CD from "trasno.net" boots on my blue&whi

Bootable Debian on Zip100

2002-02-26 Thread Otto Wyss
Does anybody know if there is anywhere a bootable Debian system on a 100MB Zip-Drive? Or is there any docs how to build such a a disk on MacOS? O. Wyss -- Author of "Debian partial mirror synch script" ("http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/";)

Re: Bootable offical Debian-CD

2001-11-29 Thread Otto Wyss
> Have you tried booting directly to OpenFirmware (hold Command-Option-O-F > before it bongs)? If not, try typing: > Booting into OF shows: Apple PowerMac1,1 1.1f4 BootROM built 04/09/99 13:57:32 ... OpenFirmware 3.1.1 ... > boot cd:\\yaboot boot cd:\\yaboot can't OPEN cd:\\yaboot No su

Bootable offical Debian-CD

2001-11-28 Thread Otto Wyss
Well I don't have the time but I'd like to have this problem fixed before Woody gets released. I've now tried all version of the first Debian Potato rev1-4 CD plus the GNU/Darwin-CD but none does boot on my b&w G3. Of course any MacOS CD does boot correctly. When I try to boot with the CD pressi

HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386)

2001-09-13 Thread Otto Wyss
While reading the thread about "HFS Plus on Linux ?" I had a experience I want to share with you. Within a an hour I had to hard reset both of my computers, first my Linux-i386 due to a complete lockup of the system while using el3diag, second my powermac due to an not responding USB-keyboard/-mo

Re: bootable CD for powerpc (fwd)

2001-09-06 Thread Otto Wyss
[...] > then burn your CD and it should boot like any other macos cd (on > newworld only). > Thanks. > the current potato debian CDs should already be bootable on all > newworlds. > I got Debian 2.2rev3 from a friend but it doesn't boot on my b&w G3. From the blinking led during startup the CD i

Is it possible to burn MacOS bootable CD's on Linux

2001-08-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Just curious if it's possible to burn standard MacOS bootable CD's on Linux? What else is needed? O. Wyss

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-30 Thread Otto Wyss
> http://segfault.org/story.phtml?id=3b3b46fb-005dd860 > The laugh I had to endure during reading this sad story almost overwhelmed me. Only with the help of my wife I could recover and survive this hideous attack at my health. Sorry this is getting a little off topic but since today is my birth

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-30 Thread Otto Wyss
> > change xemacs to my liking but have given up. The situation currently is > > not satisfying, there seems to be no editor which is (IMHO) good on > > Linux. I thought at least on PPC there were a better solution. > > such a statement can only result in a dual pronged witchhunt and make > you de

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-30 Thread Otto Wyss
> The same as on any GNU/Linux or *NIX platform. > Unforunatly, I hoped on PPC there might be other alternatives as well. > > Is there any editor which is similar to BBedit in respect of the key > > shortcuts? > > "nano" (a free clone of pico) is perhaps the best small, easy-to-use > editor for

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-30 Thread Otto Wyss
> boot-floppies now use nano-tiny, we have taken ae out back and shot it > That's the reason I though nano-tiny might be usable, but it uses the "^\" for "replace". "^\" is not possible on a swiss-german keyboard since "\" is an AltGr key which can't be combined with "^" (control) as a command. I

What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Otto Wyss
What small editors are in use on the PowerPC? Is there any editor which is similar to BBedit in respect of the key shortcuts? O. Wyss

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Otto Wyss
> A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on Linux then run > VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC. > Terrible !!! > I wouldn't mind running MOL on my PowerPC running VirtualPC to be able to run this silly program if I still were at that firm. Of course I'd prefer

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Otto Wyss
> As stated earlier you can't run wine on ppc linux. If you really wanted to > you could install intel linux using bochs and then wine on top, but why > would you want to do that if you just want to run windows running Windows it > would be much easier to install Windows on bochs. > It would be n

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Keeping these in mind, I suggest that you go ahead with this change. > > (And maybe figure out what's wrong with xkb?) > > theres one vote in favor > Up to now I'm not using Linux on my PowerMac for various reasons, so I don't have immediate experience. As far as I know the keycodes of an USB

Re: startup jingle

2001-06-01 Thread Otto Wyss
> If you still have MacOS, this may work: > > http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,MC13222,.html > > It says it doesn't work on all models. > I think the ULAW of the arpeggio is actually in the hardware. > > The problem with disabling the arpeggio is that it is supposed to indica

Re: german keyboard layout / usbmouse / ppp / gnome / gcj questions

2001-03-12 Thread Otto
bar cut off by the screen boundaries, so I >> can't move them. in debian sessions, I'm happily using icewm.. so how do I >> get gnome to use it, too? > > Make sure you have the icewm-gnome package installed. If that doesn't help, > try the Window Manager section in the GNOME control center. ok, I'll give this a try soon. thanks, -otto.

german keyboard layout / usbmouse / ppp / gnome / gcj questions

2001-03-11 Thread Otto
ost a summary or whip up a website. for some reason, there seem to be very few debian-ppc specific websites and tutorials out there. or am I missing something? TIA, -otto.

need a little help installing

2001-02-23 Thread Otto
hell, and the welcome message said that disks would be mounted under /target. well, not in my case. ls /target showed that /target is empty. !? after installing LinuxPPC few months ago, I really thought I could handle to install debian on my own.. oh well. any help is greatly appreciated.. TIA, -o

should I get potato or woody?

2001-02-02 Thread Otto
is that correct? and then, how do I get woody anyway? I've been looking around cdimage.debian.org but it seems I can only get potato that way. do I have to install potato first and then upgrade to woody? TIA, -otto.

debian-ppc on pismo anyone?

2001-01-10 Thread Otto
! TIA, -otto.

Status of USB-support in debian-powerpc

2000-05-11 Thread Otto Wyss
I'd like to know the status of the USB-support in debian-powerpc port. I'm currently using the Potato release (kernel 2.2.14) with the USB-backport from kernel 2.3.99pre6 (see "http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/";) on an i386, since my USB-keyboard/-mouse definitly needs this backport. Wh

Powerpc docs missing

2000-04-26 Thread Otto Wyss
There was once a documentation on "disks-powerpc/current/doc" but it's mostly gone. Will it be replaced by a new one? O. Wyss