Re: Can't run RAR binary

2006-06-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 25 June 2006 13:32, Lawrence Li wrote: > > Why bother with any of that when you can install this? > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/unrar > > Thanks for the tip, but when I tried to install it with "dpkg > --install ", it returned the following error msgs: Why not do "apt-get

Re: MOL Status

2006-05-14 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:58, 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 used then the mol-modules-sou

Re: Installing Debian on a RS/6000 Question

2005-11-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven Luther declared on Saturday 26 November 2005 16:06: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:44:49PM +0100, Kurt De Pauw wrote: > > Hello, > > Hi, i think you are Digger_RS6000 which i saw on irc, right ? > > > First of all I would like to tell you that I'm not a linux guru, nor > > do I have a linux syst

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-30 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven Luther declared on Sunday 30 October 2005 07:07 pm: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:15:38PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > Sven Luther declared on Sunday 30 October 2005 03:16 pm: > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:35:55AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > > > Yo

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-30 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven Luther declared on Sunday 30 October 2005 03:16 pm: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:35:55AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version > > 2.6.14-rc5-powerpc) while running a kernel of version > > 2.4.27-power

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-29 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven Luther declared on Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:03 am: > Hello, > > I just uploaded 2.6.14-rc5 packages to experimental, which are a test > run before 2.6.14 gets released and the corresponding packages go to > unstable. Since they are NEW i have made them available under : > > http://people.d

Re: Netboot install trouble on a blue and white G3.

2005-10-28 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Friday 28 October 2005 15:03, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:01:32PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > It it me, or am I the only one that cares about netbooting an > > installer on powermac... > > there are some quirks, i reinstalled my tibook using n

Re: kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 fail to boot on blue&white G3

2005-10-28 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Friday 28 October 2005 14:59, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:03:01PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > Sven, do you know if this bug is fixed by 2.6.14-xxx? I guess I > > could drag out my system to test it this weekend, if necessary.. > > No idea, 2.6.14

Re: kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 fail to boot on blue&white G3

2005-10-28 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven, do you know if this bug is fixed by 2.6.14-xxx? I guess I could drag out my system to test it this weekend, if necessary.. Pat On Monday 24 October 2005 00:12, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > I just installed debian on a blue and white G3 (another story in > itself, see my next email

Re: Netboot install trouble on a blue and white G3.

2005-10-28 Thread Patrick Finnegan
It it me, or am I the only one that cares about netbooting an installer on powermac... Pat On Monday 24 October 2005 00:20, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > After trying to figure out how to netboot the sarge installer on my > blue and white G3, I had to give up and use the woody installer >

Netboot install trouble on a blue and white G3.

2005-10-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
After trying to figure out how to netboot the sarge installer on my blue and white G3, I had to give up and use the woody installer instead. The problems I ran into: 1) The install document says to use yaboot to boot the kernel. There's no "yaboot" or yaboot.conf files in the installer directo

kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 fail to boot on blue&white G3

2005-10-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
I just installed debian on a blue and white G3 (another story in itself, see my next email), and tried to install a 2.6 kernel, both kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc from stable, and 2.6.12 from testing. Both kernels panic when trying modprobing the cmd64x ide driver in their initrd. I had to captu

Re: [PATCH} Re: www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update

2005-08-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:48, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Ralph" == Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralph> Hummm, shouldn't it be 7043-260 instead of 7044-260 in the > Ralph> power3 section ? > > I don't know since I'm no familiar with the IBM hardware. The Sarge > install manual

Re: AW: kernel compile on RS6000 7043-260

2005-08-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Friday 26 August 2005 11:23, Ralph wrote: > Hi Pat, > > thanks for Your fast reply, but that isn't it. > I did exactly what You wrote before, so the sym53c8xx > and scsi disk IS in config flagged with "Y". > When I compare the top of the logs, there's already > something different. The original

Re: kernel compile on RS6000 7043-260

2005-08-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Friday 26 August 2005 08:44, Ralph wrote: > Hi ! > > As I finally do have my 7043-260 up and running with > kernel 2.6.11 power3 smp, I went to try to build my > own kernel. Needless to say: not very successfull. > Although I did (as one can read in lots of howtos) configure > all the important

Re: Help! Not able to mount FAT filesystems

2005-08-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Friday 26 August 2005 04:48, William XWL wrote: > Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > > > Sven, if you read all of his problem, you'll see it has nothing to > > do with not having FAT compiled into his kernel. It'd be ni

Re: Help! Not able to mount FAT filesystems

2005-08-25 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven Luther declared on Thursday 25 August 2005 08:43 am: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:01:41PM +0200, Pablo Gil wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > > > I'm fed up with this. I've been trying for weeks with no results. > > I've got an external HD and a camera. Both are vfat devices. As long > > as I know (a

Re: PPC64 kernel build toolchain?

2005-04-18 Thread Patrick Finnegan
New problem (yay). When trying to build glibc32_first, it stops with this error: powerpc-linux-gcc sscanf.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wa,-mppc -mpowerpc -mnew-mnemonics -I../include -I. -I/home/finnegpt/src/buildtools/build-glibc32/stdio-common

Re: PPC64 kernel build toolchain?

2005-04-17 Thread Patrick Finnegan
(Copying reply to list as I managed to forget to check that before.) Benjamin Herrenschmidt declared on Friday 15 April 2005 06:54 pm: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:15 -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > Can anyone tell me where to get a toolchain that can build a PPC64 > > (NOT PPC32

PPC64 kernel build toolchain?

2005-04-15 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Can anyone tell me where to get a toolchain that can build a PPC64 (NOT PPC32) kernel? I've now got a few PPC64 machines running Debian that I'd like to run an actual 64-bit kernel on... Thanks, Pat -- Purdue University Research Computing -- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcac -- To UNSUBSCRI

Altivec problems on G5 using 2.6.8-power4-smp kernel

2005-01-16 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, when I run a program that uses altivec, I get a continuous stream of kernel messages that look like this: AltiVec used in kernel (task=ef839240, pc=0) But, I'm using it in a user program, not in the kernel. Due to the flood of kernel message, klogd ends up eating lots of CPU time (goes to

Altivec problems on G5 using 2.6.8-power4-smp kernel

2005-01-16 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, when I run a program that uses altivec, I get a continuous stream of kernel messages that look like this: AltiVec used in kernel (task=ef839240, pc=0) But, I'm using it in a user program, not in the kernel. Due to the flood of kernel message, klogd ends up eating lots of CPU time (goes to

Apple Cinema Display 20 XF86config?

2005-01-15 Thread Patrick Finnegan
[Reposting with a better subject] On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a har

Apple Cinema Display 20 XF86config?

2005-01-15 Thread Patrick Finnegan
[Reposting with a better subject] On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a har

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I fou

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I fou

AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't really the best, and i

AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-13 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't really the best, and i

Beige G3 serial console install?

2004-04-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So I picked up a beige G3 that I want to install debian on. As the video seems to be somewhat foobar'd (works fine in software, but produces unreadable output), I need to do a serial console install. Is there any way to do this? Every premade bootable image I've tried so far wants to use the

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 22 March 2004 21:46, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:41:47PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > On Monday 22 March 2004 12:28, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > > On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote: > > > > On Monday, March 22, 2004,

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:28, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > > I've got the same problem with my PowerMac 9600, booting using > > > BootX, except t

Re: OldWorld won't boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:07, Rich Johnson wrote: > On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > I've got the same problem with my PowerMac 9600, booting using > > BootX, except that it doesn't initialize either the video console > > (IMS Twin

Re: OldWorld wont boot new 2.6

2004-03-22 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 21 March 2004 18:02, MaX wrote: > On Mar 21, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Rich Johnson wrote: > >Booting hangs with last message being "arch: > > exit:". > > > > Kernel was configured with "make oldconfig" (seeded with 2.4.17 > > .cofig) and all default options. > > Uncompressed

PowerPC 64-bit kernels

2004-03-10 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, as I've noticed that I can't successfully compile a 64bit powerpc kernel using any sort of 'normal' kernels (or it may be a GCC issue). Precisely what toolchain/kernel sources (ie give me URL's or debian package names) do I need to build a ppc64 kernel? Thanks, Pat -- PLUG Vice President

Re: 2.4.25-1 debian kernel available based on -ben1 tree, G5 tester wanted.

2004-03-09 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven Luther declared on Saturday 06 March 2004 03:58 am: > And also at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/power3/2.4.25-2 > > which contain unpacked kernels from the -power3 config. > > Known problems are : > > pcnet ethernet driver is modular. Most power3 boxes seem to use > this one. One

Re: debian-installer on oldworld -- how-to ?

2004-03-07 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 07 March 2004 11:43, Simon Vallet wrote: > I found some vmlinux+initrd.gz downloads, but I don't know what to do > with it ? I tried booting the provided vmlinux with quik, specifying > initrd= on the command-line : it boots fine, but > all I get is my normal prompt. I suspect this is bec